Fictional worlds Quote by Zadie Smith Download Open image “I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.” — Zadie Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fictional worlds My own Sex World Writing
I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I don't write about sex because it's not really my subject. I love it when other people write about it, but it's not my… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do - like dreams.… — Martin Amis Copy Share
I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it,… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Either everything is sacred or nothing is. And if he starts burning other people’s things, then he loses something sacred also. Everyone gets what’s… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy, though they seem to be about the future or fictional worlds, are always at their core really about the problems… — John Joseph Adams Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness, this doesn't… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary or other… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you into a… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
