Gay Quote by Mike O'Malley

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

— Edmund White

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience…

— Katie Kitamura

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's…

— Jonah Peretti

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

— Marguerite Duras

I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You…

— Nora Roberts

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided…

— Catherine O'Hara

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs