Books Quote by John Woolfrey

“ … The best pieces in [Queeries] - such as … Raymond John Woolfrey’s “Pages from My Window: Red Geraniums” - are more traditional…

— Daniel Jones Books in Canada Brief Reviews Fiction. February 1994

“I set out to write a series of grand stories starring queer people. My vision has always been to let that "queerness" exist organically…

— Hazel Blackthorn

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

— Emma Donoghue

There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are…

— Garth Greenwell

I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't…

— Lena Dunham

“There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves and a skeleton of truth that we never did.”

— Charles Dickens

“Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in…

— H.P Lovecraft

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

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

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

— Milan Kundera

“The homosexuals wrote as if they were women. The timid ones wrote about orgies. The frigid ones about frenzied fulfill-ments. The most poetic ones…

— Anaïs Nin

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

— Theodore Sturgeon