Being a teenager Quote by John Boyne

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

— John Boyne

I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer. Being gay…

— Damian Barr

A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

— Edmund White

Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an astonishing number…

— Maggie O'Farrell

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

— Garth Greenwell

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

There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to…

— Edmund White

For writers, you just have to have the ability to not restrict your imagination. Men can write about women; women can write about men.…

— Mike O'Malley

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what…

— Anne Enright

I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew…

— Michael Scott

I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring…

— Ayana Mathis