Writing and Erotic Fiction Quotes by Famous Authors

Author: Sexual Diversity
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Published: 13th Jul 2020 - Updated: 12th Sep 2022
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Summary: List of motivating and famous quotations from authors regarding reading and enjoying books including erotic literature.

Definition

Erotic Fiction

Erotic fiction is the name given to fiction that deals with sex or sexual themes, generally more literary or severe than the fiction seen in pornographic magazines and sometimes including elements of satire or social criticism. Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of eros (passionate, romantic, or sexual relationships) intended to arouse similar feelings in readers, in contrast to erotica, which focuses more specifically on sexual feelings. The boundary between fiction and non-fiction is often very diffuse. To the cultured mind, the study of the writer as a professional man, the literary work as a means of communication, and the reader as a consumer of cultural goods is vaguely sacrilegious.

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Did you know studies have revealed spending 30 to 45 minutes reading erotic sex stories causes a chemical reaction in the female brain, which results in increased arousal?

Below is a list of motivating and famous quotes from a number of well known authors regarding reading and enjoying books - including erotic fiction.

• "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
• "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons.
• "If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• "I want my world to start and end with you." - E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey.
• "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami.
• "Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." - D.H. Lawrence.
• "Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets" - Andy Warhol.
• "Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light." - Vera Nazarian.
• "Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly." - Francis Bacon.
• "I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it." - Woodrow Wilson.
• "There are no faster or firmer friendships than those between people who love the same books." - Irving Stone.
• "My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading." - Steve Jobs (Founder, Apple Computers).
• "Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken." - Terry Pratchett, Eric.
• "Of course it hurts, it's a spanking. How else would it work?" - Breanna Hayse, Time Out.
• "Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul." - Joyce Carol Oates.
• "Reading is the resonance of ideas on the Soul's willing ear. It is a lonely mind through which the thoughts of another have not passed." - Emily Dickinson.
• "Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - P.J. O'Rourke
• "If erotic writing is the objectification of sex, then reading is its subjectification." - Mark John Isola.
• "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx.
• "From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings." - Helen Hayes.
• "You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." - Paul Sweeney.
• "Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art.
• "A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." - William Styron.
• "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." - C.S. Lewis.
• "Just because you're my Princess doesn't mean I won't fuck you like a slut." - Ella Dominguez, Continental Life.
• "My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter." - Thomas Helm.

Quotations from Authors Regarding Writing and Erotic Fiction

• "If erotic writing is the objectification of sex, then reading is its subjectification." - Mark John Isola.
• "...writing is a legal way of avoiding work without actually stealing and one that doesn't take any talent or training. But writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation." - Robert A. Heinlein.
• "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." - Toni Morrison.
• "Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works." - Virginia Woolf.
• "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." - Anton Chekhov.
• "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." - Robert Frost.
• "A real book is not one that's read, but one that reads us." - W.H. Auden.
• "Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?" - Pietro Aretino.
• "All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac." - Saul Bellow.
• "Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind." - Virginia Woolf.
• "Writing is a lot like sex. At first you do it because you like it. Then you find yourself doing it for a few close friends and people you like. But if you're any good at all...you end up doing it for money." - Unknown.
• "Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines." - Judith Krantz.
• "If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write." - Somerset Maugham.
• "I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction." - Sylvia Day
• "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt.
• "Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got." - Sophia Loren.
• "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one." - Baltasar Gracian.
• "The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody; in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all." - James Baldwin.
• "Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." - Mark Twain
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein.
• "So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads." - Dr. Seuss.
• "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." - Robert Benchley.
• "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." - Thomas Jefferson.
• "The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor." - Aristotle.
• "You don't actually have to write anything until you've thought it out. This is an enormous relief, and you can sit there searching for the point at which the story becomes a toboggan and starts to slide." - Marie de Nervaud.
• "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." - Francis Bacon.
• "The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any." - Russell Baker.
• "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." - George Orwell.
• "I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story." - Tom Clancy.
• "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin.
• "Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire." - Unknown.