Achilles Quote by Madeline Miller

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

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

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

A lot of times, gay characters are represented in unrealistic or stereotypical ways.

— Shannon Purser

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

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.

— Casey Wilson

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

— Martin McDonagh

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

— Edmund White

My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.

— Sarah Schulman

Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they…

— Kathryn Hughes

I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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