I am a gay writer, absolutely. And in no way does that fact limit the reach or importance of what I write.
Garth GreenwellThere are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and especially their sexual lives, on center stage.
Garth GreenwellI often say that Bernhard, W.G. Sebald, and Javier Marรญas are my stylistic holy trinity, prose writers who amaze me with their notation of consciousness and voice.
Garth GreenwellI take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.
Garth Greenwell