Criticism Quote by Kevin Sessums

A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to…

— Marisa Tomei

It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human…

— Stephen Fry

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

Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models.…

— Edmund White

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

— Oscar Wilde

“(Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived.”

— Tanith Lee

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

— Edmund White

The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to…

— Sydney J. Harris

“ [On Oscar Wilde:] "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all…

— Dorothy Parker

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that…

— Edmund White

“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his…

— George Orwell

It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it makes him…

— Tennessee Williams