Books Quote by George Bernard Shaw

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual…

— Anonymous

“Erotic literarature is literature in which eroticism is the novel. It focuses on that. It also implies a certain degree of description, a certain…

— Marco Vassi

Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case…

— Kenneth Tynan

I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography is a…

— Robertson Davies

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy…

— Susan Sontag

“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

“Writing is the equivalent to a striptease. You better be comfortable with your body if you're gonna remove your clothes in public amid wolf…

— Kit Yan

“The term 'Erotic Fiction' is interesting to me. The 'Fiction' part. Cuz right now somewhere in the world it's happening just as it's written.”

— Gregor Collins

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

— Walker Percy

“... a novel which I called Pornografia. At that time it wasn’t such a bad title, today, in view of the excess of pornography,…

— Witold Gombrowicz

“It is the sex of the novels and not that of their authors that must interest us. All great novels, all true novels are…

— Milan Kundera

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

— Anthony Burgess