Books Quote by David Lodge

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

— David Lodge

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

— Anthony Burgess

“I believe sex is a life force and I try to write about it as straightforwardly as I can. I try to let characters…

— Maureen Gibbon

“All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess)”

— Blanche Bachelar

“Yet any distinction between literature and life is misleading. Literature for me is not merely the best part of life; it is itself the…

— Harold Bloom

“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

“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.”

— Donald Hall

“Never mix books and bed. In the spectrum of excitement, sex & thought were on opposite ends. Both to be enjoyed, but never at…

— Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason

“Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.”

— Ange Mlinko