Douglas A Martin Inspirational Quotes (3)

I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order that they have been written.

As a gay writer and someone who began by writing autobiographical fiction, it's hard to get away from chatter of You're just a narcissist, You're just a gay man, You're just looking for yourself in somebody else, Why does your boyfriend look like you, a kind of baggage that you already have to create in the face of.

William Faulkner was the master of what one must do to be serious. But I don't understand why people haven't moved forward from that, why that's not where the line in the sand is that you would see from. When I think about the reception of my own writing and what seems difficult, there is an actual precedent.