Books Quote by Marlon James

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

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

— 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

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

— Carol Anshaw

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

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

— Christopher Rice

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 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

The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is…

— Garth Greenwell

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

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