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If you can't look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why it's there - take it out or change it. — Diana Gabaldon

Writing, like drugs and recreational sex, becomes an activity associated with youth. — Betsy Lerner

I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any. — David Hare

For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex). — Philip Sington

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music. — Noel Gallagher

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive. — Edmund Wilson

Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think. — Natalie Goldberg

- Have you ever written the ending of the story first and then the rest of it?
- Hell no, I've never had an orgasm before having sex. — Enkelejd Lamaj

The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed. — Doris Lessing

Writing is like sex, you are always learning new things and nuances. — T-Boner

The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm. — Christos Tsiolkas

There's more to the erotic life than explicitness. — Jess C. Scott

Good writing like good sex requires discipline. — Chloe Thurlow

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex. — Anthony Burgess

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare. — Ruth Rendell

I just write about what comes up. Sometimes you're thinking about Palestine, and sometimes you're thinking about sex. People have a lot going on. — Mirah

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

This is why you use imagery when writing about sex; it's a means both of evoking immediacy and of distilling emotion. — Diana Gabaldon

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

As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag. — Diana Gabaldon

Don't let characters talk pointlessly - they only talk if there's something to say. — Diana Gabaldon

It's a good thing, right, when an author gets turned on by the dirty scenes they write?! — Martha Sweeney

Sex and writing live on playful cruelties. — Mason Cooley

Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines. — Benjamin R. Smith

It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period. — Catherine Brady

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

There's a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional. — Diana Gabaldon

Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life. — Erica Jong

Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm a writer. I'm a Christian. I like sex. But I haven't had it. I believe in waiting until marriage. But that doesn't mean I want my characters to. — Michelle N. Onuorah

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. — Nicholas Sparks

When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism. — Whitney Cummings

Writing is like having sex. The people who never shut up about doing it are usually the ones who don't know what the hell they're doing. — Greg Sisco

Get thee behind me, tragedy. Kneeling over her, he lifted her and impaled her gently on his sex. — Anne Rice

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

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

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX? — Vincent H. O'Neil

Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography. — Fran Lebowitz

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. — Anne Sexton

In writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters. — Nadine Gordimer

Pointing out the emotion in a scene is like laughing at your own jokes. — Diana Gabaldon

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

Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids — Diana Gabaldon

You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it's better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones. — Diana Gabaldon

It's just not as hot without biting, scratching, and spanking, involved. — Jennifer Salaiz

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. — Virginia Woolf

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty. — H.L. Mencken

Because I want to have sex with him
and because that's sinful
I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny. — Jess C. Scott

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath. — Lorin Stein

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me. — Lina K. Lapina

My brain is dull, my sight is foul,
I cannot write a verse, or read
Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl,
And let us have a lark instead. — Thomas Hood

I really think that writing about sex is writing about the mind. — Jane DeLynn

What is your advice to young writers?"
"Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes. — Charles Bukowski

Dialogue doesn't take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage. — Diana Gabaldon

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen. — Stephen King

If there's true emotional content in a situation between characters, all you do is reveal it. — Diana Gabaldon

There's nothing worse than being violently jerked away from creativity. — Aaron B. Powell

Almost everybody understands that you have to have something at stake for a story to be good. — Diana Gabaldon

I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about sex in all my books anyway. — Meg Wolitzer

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

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. — Alphonse Karr

Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits! — Airam