“To some extent, emotions are universal and can be treated that way; no matter what the participants orientation or preference, they have sex for the same reasons and can experience the same array o...”

“Men have external genitalia, while women have internal genitalia. This simple difference makes a lot of difference in how they write about themselvesand how you might write about your characters. M...”

“Theres 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.”

“Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids”

“If you cant look a line of dialogue in the face and say exactly why its theretake it out or change it.”

“You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large its better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones.”

“It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.”

“To some extent, emotions are universal and can be treated that way; no matter what the participants orientation or preference, they have sex for the same reasons and can experience the same array o...”

“Men have external genitalia, while women have internal genitalia. This simple difference makes a lot of difference in how they write about themselvesand how you might write about your characters. M...”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”