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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Because I want to have sex with himand 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
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
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
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.
— Lynn Coady
