Science Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“Thus Hawkes (1975)maintained that pornography is not explicit sex, but 'uncaring sex,' but could add that '[t]o me, censorship is pornographic.”

— Martha Cornog

“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is not licensed…

— Hilary Mantel

“His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would…

— Kevin Wilson

“Art is sanctioned pornography”

— Stewart Home

“... 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

“Porn was something, it was a fill with lessons, full of them..., but for now it's empty so far and what I see I…

— Deyth Banger

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals.”

— Thomas Pynchon

Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

— Leonard Rossiter

“The way to get better pornography is to give pornographers better sex.”

— John Preston

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

— Susan Sontag