46 quotes found
“Everybody is Other in Maupin.”
“Art is long and life is short.”
“Trust the tale, not the teller.”
“A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.”
“Were happier when the assholes are villains.”
“We’re happier when the assholes are villains.”
“Death is almost never timely, even for the old.”
“There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.”
“Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.”
“A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having such a representative life. And its true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.”
“Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.”
“Didnt he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?”
“Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didnt worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight colleg...”
“An obsessed reader figured that Armistead Maupin was an anagram for is a man I dreamt up.”
“Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books it was the best reason for being homosexual, it and love.”
“Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).”
“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.”
“A work of art doesnt need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other...”
“Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.”
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”
“A writer who cant use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichs.”
“Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, dont understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems s...”
