Exciting Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Create Fiction Exciting Fiction Fiction Make Make Sex Reason Sex Sex Exciting Writer Writing
I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Sex offers incredible narrative opportunities and so many emotions are tied up in sex. Also, I mean, the erotic is always a fun creative… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I think that leaving things to the imagination is what creates seduction. Sometimes one can have too much of a good thing. Part of… — Sylvain Reynard 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… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of craft I've… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If you read my short stories, there's a lot of sex in those in all different ways. To me, it's a really good, useful… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting.… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
It's always exciting to be part of films where you matter and add value. — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what… — Joyce Van Patten Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Schools must inquire deeper into their own practices, explore new ways to motivate their learners, make use of learning styles, introduce multiple intelligences, integrate… — Michael Fullan Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
“Life is adventurous and exciting because you never know where you will be in a few minutes or so.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
