Kenneth Tynan Quotes

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

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.

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

Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.

I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.

I have never written anything sexually explicit.

I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.

Fetish is a straight-up sex song.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of seeing what you can write and how you can write about sex, has reached a certain weary terminus with Fifty Shades of Grey.

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

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

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

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.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

Actually, with those dirty movies, I find like, they're good for about fifteen, twenty minutes. I'm really interested. And, then, uh, there's one point, that all of a sudden I'm bored. You know? I just lose interest completely and I feel deeply ashamed.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.