Colleen McCullough Quotes

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

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

It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived.

I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

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

Soap operas have become sex operas.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

It's so easy to pick up a camera, white balance, and shoot people having sex, but I don't think there's anything very interesting about it. You might get off, but that's it.

From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.

My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

If it doesn't have sex scenes in it, I won't do it.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.