Books Quote by David Lodge

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

— John K Van De Kamp

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around”

— David Lodge

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

— Anthony Burgess

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning…

— Gore Vidal

“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

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

— James Branch Cabell

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot…

— Philip Larkin

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

— Gertrude Stein

I have three kids, so children's literature is a big part of my life.

— Tracy K. Smith

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

— Blanche Bachelar