Ifs Quote by Olga Broumas

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

— Zadie Smith

When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write…

— Philip Roth

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing…

— Loudon Wainwright III

One of the things I rarely do is write about sex.

— Dan Chaon

There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of…

— Haruki Murakami

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

— Jeanette Winterson

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

— Natalie Goldberg

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

— Lewis Black

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

— Walker Percy

I've been a writer my whole life.

— Scheana Shay

Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.

— Harold Brodkey

Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always…

— Clive James