Books Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

— Walker Percy

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

— Zadie Smith

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

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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

Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.

— Michael Winter

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

— Lynn Coady

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

— Gertrude Stein

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

— Anthony Burgess

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

— Anonymous

“Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male writers, but…

— Marge Piercy

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