Boots Quote by Nina Bawden

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

— Zadie Smith

“It sometimes strikes me that there is only one taboo left in young adult literature. By and large, no one complains any more when…

— M.T. Anderson

“In those years I did not care to enjoy sex, only to have it. That is what seeing Alex again on Fifth Avenue brought…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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

I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

— Ken Livingstone

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about…

— Ann Brashares

“As the world confronts the challenges of globalisation, the entertainment Industry and a web saturated with explicit sexual content, is increasingly making it difficult…

— Oche Otorkpa

I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.

— David Hare

I wouldn't want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it's happening, and they're just a little too young to understand…

— Rihanna