Books Quote by John Sandford Download Open image “Most people like a little sex in their novels.” — John Sandford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Like Little Little Sex Littles Novel Novels People People Like Sex Sex Novels
I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death. — Walker Percy 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
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself. — Lynn Coady 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“A certain percentage of technological societies severely damage their own planets before they become mature enough to understand the damage they are doing. In… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“truth, that he wasn’t involved in the murder, but Virgil wasn’t yet ready to label him nope. After a moment, Virgil said, “I’m going… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“The anger that was coursing through America deeply worried her. Although she was too young to remember the beginnings of the civil rights, anti–Vietnam… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“Space junk had made low Earth orbit space almost unusable by the mid-thirties, and it had taken a decade of concerted and costly international… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
“LIKE ANY GOOD MINNESOTAN, Lucas rarely missed the TV weather before going to bed.” — John Sandford Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image