Desire Quote by Catherine Brady Download Open image “It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period.” — Catherine Brady ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Hard Periods Sex Writing
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do - like dreams.… — Martin Amis Copy Share
Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out of a… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line with your… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute. — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
