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Christopher Bram Quotes | Quotes said by Christopher Bram

  • Christopher Bram Quote #1

    A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.


  • Christopher Bram Quote #2

    A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?

  • Christopher Bram Quote #3

    A work of art doesn’t 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 people’s lives.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #4

    A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #5

    A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #6

    A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #7

    Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn’t worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #8

    An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #9

    Art is long and life is short.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #10

    Cunningham himself said in an interview in Poz that he couldn’t help noticing that as soon as he wrote a novel without a blowjob, they gave him the Pulitzer Prize.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #11

    Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #12

    Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

  • Christopher Bram Quote #13

    Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #14

    Everybody is Other in Maupin.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #15

    Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

  • Christopher Bram Quote #16

    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.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #17

    Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready to come out.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #18

    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 in a newspaper is not always more important than a fictional one in a novel or play or poem.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #19

    If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #20

    Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #21

    In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #22

    It has been a marvellous age of invention: radio, aeroplane, electric light, the telephone, and fellatio.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #23

    It’s often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they’re going.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #24

    Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #25

    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 obvious now, so banal.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #26

    Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #27

    Seventies macho was both a look – moustache, jeans, leather jacket – and an attitude – cool, heartless, virile – that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much emotion.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #28

    Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #29

    Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

  • Christopher Bram Quote #30

    Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

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