Quotes by Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

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We’re happier when the assholes are villains. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Death is almost never timely, even for the old. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Art is long and life is short. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Trust the tale, not the teller. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock). — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking quest — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Everybody is Other in Maupin. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they nee — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
It’s often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they’re going. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Ea — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. — Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America