Harry Mathews Quotes

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.

You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

I always write about what interests me.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

I think visual seduction is really a lovely thing. To be able to look at something and feel you want to get closer and closer to it, and as you get closer to it, the more you drop your guard.

I just know when I read something if it's something that I want to do.

Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.

Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them.

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

Beauty draws more than oxen.

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.