Doe Quote by Garth Greenwell

The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at the end…

— Ana Castillo

Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what…

— Vestal McIntyre

“Some of our finest writers, organizers, artists, and scholars in the 60s as well as today, have been lesbian and gay, and history will…

— Audre Lorde

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and…

— Tony Kushner

I am a gay writer, absolutely. And in no way does that fact limit the reach or importance of what I write.

— Garth Greenwell

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

— Penelope Wilton

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than…

— Cheryl Strayed

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

— Elena Ferrante

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask…

— Joe Mantello

I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay. But…

— John Boyne

“It seems obvious to me that the more queer books there are in the wolrd, the more queer kids we reach with the message…

— Ellen Wittlinger