Fables Quote by Tony Kushner

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

“I set out to write a series of grand stories starring queer people. My vision has always been to let that "queerness" exist organically…

— Hazel Blackthorn

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 had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself,…

— Christopher Rice

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 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 was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves and a skeleton of truth that we never did.”

— Charles Dickens

It's time for gay people to be in the industry and talking about their stories.

— King Princess

Not every gay person recites poetry or has read Keats. You can get readers through anything if the characters are complicated. You can't dismiss…

— Marlon James

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

— Elena Ferrante

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best…

— Charles Dickens

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