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I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

— Sal Khan

“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that…

— William T. Vollmann

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

— Gore Vidal

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

— Walker Percy

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

— Gertrude Stein

Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“Victorian novels come to us, that is, poised between questions of outer and inner, public and private life; they tend to contrast and nally…

— Hilary Schor

I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels work. But…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“As more and more norms disappear from social praxis, literature faces ever-growing difficulties. Its predicament is beginning to resemble that of a child who…

— Stanisław Lem

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

— Lauren Oliver

Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.

— Mary McCarthy

“All I'm saying is that there is a generation gap, and I think it revolves around this public/private thing. Our generation -- we subscribe…

— David Lodge