Quotes by Christopher Bram

About Christopher Bram:

Christopher Bram is an American author.
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Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.

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

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Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.

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

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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.

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

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The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.

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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 order to live their own lives. (It’s why you sti...

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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.

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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 ...

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

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The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment.

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

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameChristopher Bram
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1952
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Lambda Literary Award