Appetites Quote by John Updike

“Lust is a lot like a slow brained dog. It slobbers a lot and jumps up on people at the most inopportune time.”

— John Goode

Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“Lust, pure gorgeous lust: the sacred energy that elevates us, and makes us feel so special.”

— Fiona Thrust

“In a world where lust is confused for love and silence for peace, remember to be firm in your beliefs and submit not to…

— Kevin Keenoo

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

— Sylvia Plath

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

“Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside the conscious…

— K.M. Weiland

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.

— Alice Steinbach

“Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.”

— Philip Roth

Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

— Plato

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

— Charles Churchill