Time Quote by Hilary Mantel

“I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.”

— Camille Desmoulins

“Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“I really think that writing about sex is writing about the mind.”

— Jane DeLynn

“Writing had never become routine for him, but remained a constant surprise. He was always surprised at how much fun it was, once it…

— Nora Roberts

“No sex position, no matter how well-written, can make up for the lack of a good partner.”

— Tiffany Reisz

“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

“Writing is a seXXXy thing!”

— Anonymous

“When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting…

— Paul Russell

“For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin.”

— Stephen King

“For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself.…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In the act of writing he experiences, today, an exceptional sensual pleasure -- in the feel of the pen, snug in the crook of…

— J.M. Coetzee

“And he did what women around the world loved him for, over and above his money: he fucked like an artist; with natural talent,…

— C.C. Gibbs