William Boyd Quotes

I think every great show has that kind of romance that people just kind of yearn for.

It was that chemistry. And was the fact that he was president part of that chemistry? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. But it was - I was there because there was chemistry. I wasn't there because, oh, this is the president.

As the evening progressed, Scott said that he was looking forward to settling down, but that he hadn't yet found the right person. The way he looked at me when he said that made me feel he might be wondering whether I was that person.

Let me tell you, you either have chemistry or you don't, and you better have it, or it's like kissing some relative. But chemistry, listen to me, you got to be careful. Chemistry is like those perfume ads, the ones that look so interesting and mysterious but you dont even know at first what they're even selling. Or those menues without the prices. Mystery and intrigue are gonna cost you. Great looking might mean something ve-ry expensive, and I don't mean money. What I'm saying is, chemistry is a place to start, not an end point.

days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me.

Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way.

What I find sexy is when someone's having fun and able to look right back at you.

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.

Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there.

You can tell if someone's into you. You can feel the chemistry.

That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Eros is everywhere. It is what binds.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.