Latest Christopher Rice Quotes from Interviews

• I don't want to judge anyone's sex life - but I worry that those are the only options we are giving to our young people.

  Christopher Rice

  Sex, People, Giving

• I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

  Christopher Rice

  Dangerous Situations, Names, People

• I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

  Christopher Rice

  People, Wish, Bars

• If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

  Christopher Rice

  Dream, Odds, Down And

• I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans.

  Christopher Rice

  Struggle, Gay, Thinking

• I think for gay people to see gay people living honestly about everything they do is really a contribution.

  Christopher Rice

  Gay, Pensamiento, Gente

• If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

  Christopher Rice

  Psychology, Needs, Bliss

• Lo que se ha vuelto más importante para mí con el tiempo es no intentar venderme como alguien que no soy, y eso empieza con salir del armario y poco a poco es un reto ampliarlo a otras áreas de mi vida.

  Christopher Rice

  Challenges, Important, Trying

• I think dragging someone out of the closet who isn't necessarily engaged in anti-gay activities can have a destructive effect on them and on us. I don't want unwilling gay people advocating on my behalf; I think that's a challenge.

  Christopher Rice

  Gay, Pensamiento, Gente

• I think the gay community, as a whole, is slighted by high-profile figures who remain in the closet. But I think that a lot of times we need to ask ourselves what that person's role in our community would be if they were out of the closet.

  Christopher Rice

  Gay, Thinking, Community

• I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

  Christopher Rice

  Reality, Thinking, Needs

• I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that's above everything else. I think that applies whether you're a public figure or not. The closet is a terrible place to be for the person who's in it.

  Christopher Rice

  Thinking, Important, Sanity

• Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.

  Christopher Rice

  Moving, Writing, Self

• I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

  Christopher Rice

  Believe, Writing, Fiction

• I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself, I wanted us to be included in the popular mainstream of entertainment fiction.

  Christopher Rice

  Gay, Fiction, Done

• I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

  Christopher Rice

  Unique, Reality, Thinking

• It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

  Christopher Rice

  Writing, Character, Gay

• I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.

  Christopher Rice

  Thinking, Discovery, Feelings

• I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

  Christopher Rice

  Loss, Thinking, Influence

• I think what has been the ultimate challenge for me is being willing to be honest with myself about what works for me in terms of relationships and sexual relations. In that sense, I was pretty traditional and pretty buttoned down.

  Christopher Rice

  Thinking, Challenges, Honest

• The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid of them or being too nervous to try them. I did try them and they didn't work for me, they didn't feed me spiritually, they didn't leave me gratified.

  Christopher Rice

  Sex, Gay, Trying

• Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.

  Christopher Rice

  School, Kids, Gay

• I do believe in the Kinsey scale, I think many of us fall in different places on the scale and I think it's for each one of us to decide where we are on the scale, it's not for someone else to decide for us.

  Christopher Rice

  Creer, Caer, Pensar

• I made the decision that, to be happy and to be content, I needed to live the life of an exclusive homosexual. I don't mean an elitist homosexual, but I mean someone who is exclusively pursuing partners of the same gender.

  Christopher Rice

  Live Life, Mean, Decision

• My experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I turned 18 and was old enough to get into certain gay bars in the French Quarter, I became a regular customer.

  Christopher Rice

  Gay, French Quarter, Bars

También te puede gustar:

Anne Rice

Stan Rice

Alice Borchardt

Jamie O'Neill

David Leavitt

Patricia Nell Warren

Paul Levine