Agents Quote by Joy Williams

I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me…

— Richard Ford

Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own…

— Vivek Shraya

There's an expectation of producers and writers and directors perhaps, that trans people only want to play trans.

— Rebecca Root

“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”

— Ivan Doig

I see myself as coming out of a trans tradition. There's a number of trans writers before me who wrote great novels.

— Torrey Peters

“Me, i'm going to write ass-kicking trans* characters. I think I might end up writing not a single thing that is "pure" by some…

— Aleksandr Voinov

The number of trans people coming through is phenomenal. So that the talent is there. There are people there. Casting directors and producers just…

— Rebecca Root

That is the next step for out trans actors - to just be treated as actors and not 'trans actors.'

— Trace Lysette

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

— James Howard Kunstler

For any model in this industry, you never know if you're going to get work. You never know if people are going to relate…

— Carmen Carrera

Anytime you give a trans person an opportunity, especially an opportunity to be ourselves, you are promoting a shift in the way society sees…

— Trace Lysette

The basic building blocks of being trans are not 'other' to other people: the desire to be recognised by the people that you love…

— Torrey Peters