Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.

“Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the…

— Howard Zinn

Cruelties should be committed all at once.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old. Like I'd…

— Rachel Kramer Bussel

I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I like sex writing that makes me think, makes me cringe, makes me angry, makes me look at it in a new way.

— Rachel Kramer Bussel

I'd really like to see smart sex writing, writing that can take sex apart and try to put it back together, that doesn't just…

— Rachel Kramer Bussel

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I really think that writing about sex is writing about the mind.”

— Jane DeLynn

“Her descriptions will be incandescent, perfect little nuggets of phraseology, and there will probably be lots of sex in her writing - the clinical…

— Susan Breen

“Unlooked-for kindness can cut deep as cruelties if they come at the wrong time.”

— Lyndsay Faye

Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots with equal passion," said the old man…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“We sometimes hear of the cruelties of the Inquisition, of the barbarity of the Irish, of the tyranny of priestcraft; but such cruelties, barbarities,…

— Mary Frances Cusack

“Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.”

— Jess C. Scott