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If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

In the past, I've tried to show the human side of people involved in stigmatised or misunderstood lifestyles. I've tried to resist easy judgments and not pander to prejudices.

My aim in life is not to judge.

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

I've always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time, but I like to speak with conviction.