Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist John Rechy.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
John Francisco Rechy is an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, dramatist and literary critic. In his novels, he has written extensively about gay culture in Los Angeles and wider America, among other subject matter, and is among the pioneers of modern LGBT literature. City of Night, his debut novel published in 1963, was a best seller. Drawing on his own background, he has contributed to Chicano literature, notably with his novel The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, which has been taught in several Chicano literature courses throughout the United States.
Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.
I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.
Writing is hustling of another kind.
Gay men should not adopt the sophomoric model of heterosexual dating; gay men should always have sex first.