Big business Quote by Stephen King

The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside of my…

— June Diane Raphael

It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If…

— Erica Jong

“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe…

— Gregory Maguire

in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the…

— Doris Day

“Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot”

— Gore Vidal

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire

“The last time I read piles of erotica by choice, I was fourteen. At that stage, having no experience with men beyond snogging, I…

— Fiona Pitt-Kethley

I think that The Second Sex will seem an old, dated book, after a while. But nonetheless, a book which will have made its…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could…

— Groucho Marx

A lot of queer stories revolve around tragedy.

— Camille Perri

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

— Anonymous

I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

— Alice Hoffman