I do feel a responsibility. It's a privilege to be able to speak about it, but I don't … - Damian Barr

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The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Damian Barr

I do feel a responsibility. It's a privilege to be able to speak about it, but I don't speak for all gay people.

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I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.

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I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.

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I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

Thinking, Secret, Share, Keeping, Memoirs

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are very often not really what happened. And as I started to write stuff down, I started to challenge what I thought I knew about myself, my culture, my family, all of it. It was a huge, destroying process that completely took over my life. I just wasn't here, I mean I was physically present, but I wasn't here, I was back in the 1980s.

1980S, Challenges, Completely, Mean, Process, Writing

I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer. Being gay is just a part of who I am.

Gay, Who I Am, Lazy, Funny, Days

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