17 Quotes by Dale Peck

Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it’s harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don’t know they’re infected.

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It’s intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It’s cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

Don’t come to New York until you’ve finished a book. It’s too expensive. You’ll never write anything. You’ll spend all your time working to pay the rent.

I’m a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn’t be doing it, but most of it’s bad.

We had the fun of being outlaws. But there’s a whole generation now coming up with new gender identities. For this generation of kids who don’t think that being gay is anything special, they might be more interesting than any of us.

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.

Drift House: Susan’s response to Queen Octavia’s sarcasm in regards to fading memories... “But we pass our memories on,” she insisted. “I mean, from one generation to the next. Parents teach their children. They write things down, tell them stories –.