Book Quote by Laurell K. Hamilton

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

“I think that leaving things to the imagination is what creates seduction. Sometimes one can have too much of a good thing. Part of…

— Sylvain Reynard

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

“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

I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the Frontiers of…

— Dave Barry

There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who was much…

— Janice Erlbaum

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

— Walker Percy

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes,…

— George R. R. Martin

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

— John Sandford

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

— Anthony Burgess