Ann Bannon Quotes

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Her voice was sharp and probing, like a needle in the hands of a nervous nurse.

Ann Bannon
Maybe I grew up too fast, maybe that's my trouble. I feel so lost out here... hung up between two worlds; half-kid and half-adult, half-boy and half-girl. And sometimes it seems like I get the dirty side of both.

Ann Bannon
So she rode out of the big city, wet and cold with its January gloss, and left behind Merrill Landon, her father. The man in her life. The only man in her life. The only man she ever seriously tried to love.

Ann Bannon
And so we come back to the roof of that Upper West Side apartment, looking down on the lights of the city. One night, staring across the twinkling horizon and seeing the character in my mind's eye, I thought for the thousandth time, "If I could just find a name for her, she would come into focus for me."
Describing the creation of the character Bebo Brinker

Ann Bannon
Laura was a naive girl, but not a stupid one. She was fuzzily aware of certain extraordinary emotions that were generally frowned upon and so she frowned upon them too, with no very good notion of what they were or how they happened, and not the remotest thought that they could happen to her.

Ann Bannon
Some day she would know all of this as well as her home town; know the campus lore and landmarks, the Greek alphabet, the football heroes, the habits of the campus cops.

Ann Bannon
On her character Beebo Brinker:
Beebo Brinker came to life because I personally needed her so much. I scoured the streets and bars and shops of Greenwich Village for a Beebo. But she was never really there, not as I pictured her.

Ann Bannon
As for changes in the world, the most valuable surely is that we need no longer be an island entire unto ourselves. No young gay person is thrown in jail anymore for just the suspicion of homosexual activity.

Ann Bannon