Boring Quote by Walker Percy

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

— Zadie Smith

Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

— Erica Jong

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

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

— Dan Chaon

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

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

— Gore Vidal

I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels work. But…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

— John Sandford

I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and…

— Jane Smiley

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

Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much.…

— Toni Morrison