Quote by William T. Vollmann

Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that…

— William T. Vollmann

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy…

— Susan Sontag

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual…

— Anonymous

“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is not licensed…

— Hilary Mantel

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Gore Vidal

“Reading good fiction is like making the jump from masturbation to sex.”

— Stephen King

“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic…

— Claude Calame

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

— Gore Vidal

“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial – and any question about sex is that – one cannot hope to tell the…

— Virginia Woolf

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

— Camille Paglia

“The term 'Erotic Fiction' is interesting to me. The 'Fiction' part. Cuz right now somewhere in the world it's happening just as it's written.”

— Gregor Collins