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
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.
Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).
It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
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.
I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.
I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.
My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.
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.
Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.
There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.
David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .
