Character Quote by Jane Smiley

Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much.…

— Toni Morrison

I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's not my…

— David Sedaris

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

— Zadie Smith

The one thing I'm terrified of trying to write about is sex. I mean my God, my wife might read it or my daughter…

— Dave Barry

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

One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.

— Dan Chaon

Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much…

— Edmund White

I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm…

— Joss Whedon

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

— Walker Percy

“Writing about sex is a challenge for the same reason sex is a challenge. Because it’s complicated. Because it doesn’t always make sense and…

— Sarah MacLean

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

— Hunter S. Thompson

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