Always Quote by Edmund White
“I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.”
![“Before writing [the book], I lived out the words. A gay girl once? Yes. Now? I am what God's goodness will do to a soul once grace gets to it. In saying that, I know I've already offended someone... There are many who, while reading, won't understand gayness as something possible of being in the…” quote by Jackie Hill Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/331/jackie-hill-perry-98453_books_before-writing-the-book-i-lived-out-the_2138562.jpg)
