Except Quote by Lynn Coady Download Open image “When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.” — Lynn Coady ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Except Pleasing Sex Writer Writing
Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Another sex worker and writer I respect put it this way: she said that as a writer, you're not about pleasing people, and as… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of craft I've… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea. — Michael Winter 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
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've always enjoyed sex scenes, though you're not really supposed to. The classic answer is, 'Oh, it's not sexy at all because there are… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
“Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It grins because it knows it is a terrible poem. It… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I don't like the writer I was, or because… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of… — David Lange Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all… — Brian Wildsmith Copy Share Image
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real… — Aviv Nevo Copy Share Image
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay! — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
My family didn't come from fame. No one was musical in my family except for me. — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image