Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Ch...
A source page for quotes linked to Christopher Bram.
“Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.”
“An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.”
“Everybody is Other in Maupin.”
“Good prose is solitary work.”
“Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.”
“I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.”
“Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.”
“Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.”
“We’re happier when the assholes are villains.”
“There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.”
“Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.”