Garth Greenwell Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I hope that the relationship of the title to the novel [ What Belongs To You] gets more complex with each section of the book: that maybe it begins by resonating with the question of prostitution - to what extent can a body be commodified, what exactly are you renting or purchasing when you pay for sex - and deepens over the course of the book to address larger questions of ownership and belonging.

  Garth Greenwell

  Sex, Book, Titles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• There 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 Greenwell

  Book, Character, Gay

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.

  Garth Greenwell

  Book, Gay, Winning

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous school and his relationship with a prostitute. I doubt very much it will be evaluated on its merits as literature. If Bulgarian were the book's only language, that would be painful and limiting to me as a writer. Since my book also exists in English - where it isn't scandalous at all - I feel comfortable with the possibility of scandal.

  Garth Greenwell

  Teacher, Book, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I 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

  Real, Book, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

• I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

  Garth Greenwell

  Book, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me.

  Garth Greenwell

  Real, Book, Teaching

  Source: therumpus.net

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