"I’ve always had little patience for people who have no idea what’s going on in the world. I’d say read five newspapers a day and you’re never boring." Read More
"What keeps me going is same as ever--I need attention. What would it take for me to quit? A sugar mama." Read More
"Music was an escape for me when self-expression was, at least so I thought, a punishable offense." Read More
"There’s a fine line between privacy and shame..." Read More
Michael Cunningham: On Writing Sex, the Creative Process, and Why New York City is (Not) for Writers
"Eroticism is difficult to write about, I think, because everybody’s sense of the erotic is so personal, and so private. What’s hot to me might very well be repellent to you, and vice versa." Read More
"We’re not always in the best place to judge our own work. There’s a lot to be said for just making the book as good as you can, sending it out into the world and not worrying about it." Read More
"The Lesbian Avengers were enormous! Dykes were inspired to start groups all over the world, not just in New York and San Francisco. In its heyday during the 1990s, there were at least sixty Lesbian Avenger chapters." Read More
"[...] writing fiction is indeed different from writing criticism. The process feels a lot less intentional. This will sound horribly mystical, but with fiction I’m not always aware exactly which part of me is making the decisions, which can be a little unsettling." Read More
"In Nochita, you've got a bunch of queens living in a single room in the Tenderloin. You've got a nerdy entrepreneur with brand-new black jeans and his pinball machine in his office. You've got fancy diners being accosted by nude revelers. It was the late nineties for sure. Now I think people save their nudity for Burning Man." Read More
"The book is not against gay marriage. Or any kind of marriage, as a private sacrament with no connection to government or law. It’s against marriage as a legitimate legal institution." Read More
