The Lost Library Quotes

“Lost love weighs heavier than lost time.”
― Tom Cardamone, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“For eventually one gets over reality’s affront to one’s innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.”
― Paul Russell, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“Books about books are a rare species, special tomes for writers and book lovers. More than an affirmation of taste, a book about books is often a spirited celebration and sincere investigation. Quickly coveted, it remains on that particular shelf, guarded and revered, and eventually slips out of print. What good company we will keep then, among a library lost, only momentarily invisible, waiting patiently to be found.”
― Tom Cardamone, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.”
― Michael Graves, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“When you want something as powerful and necessary as love, you don’t reach back, you reach forward.”
― Tom Cardamone, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.”
― Andy Quan, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“I think the word ‘love’ should be used sparingly and truthfully.”
― Andy Quan, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered and consumed. A cultural lacuna has opened, one that needs arresting.”
― Tom Cardamone, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.”
― Christopher Bram, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“Amply described blowjobs and anal scenes may stigmatise gay writers.”
― Michael Graves, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

“In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.”
― Michael Graves, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered