An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.
Good prose is solitary work.
If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.
It’s often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they’re going.
Shake
Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.
The only truth left is my drunkenness, my sex, and my art.
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don’t understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so...
Quiere vivir algo que se parezca a una experiencia extraordinaria, una batalla, una historia de amor, una aventura límite, un crimen incluso. Cielo o infierno, qué importa, pero un gran drama que lo s...
We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must break with the groupthink of church and society in...
History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about...
A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.
It made him feel like a mom, ineffectual and sexless.
It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.
In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.
If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?
He looked as incongruous as a rose in a bowl of brussels sprouts.