February 2011
18 posts
"I know it seems unfair that you have to work...
— Tracy McMillan, Huffington Post
“I had to double-check to make sure I wasn’t reading The Onion,” joked diana-vilibert.
“There is no way to predict how long creative labor pangs will last before your...”
– Jackie Summers
“I called the concierge desk at the W and arranged for Godiva chocolates and...”
– Jackie Summers
“Conclusions: Most conclusions are temporary; and also, if I were to find out...”
– Lena Potapova
“When you love like your life depends on it, you die a little every day.”
– Jackie Summers (via gutsymmetries)
“One odd thing I’ve noticed about sex scenes over the years is that the...”
– Walter Kirn
“I want to make a few general remarks on sex scenes in fiction. I still have a...”
– Walter Kirn
“Responses to people fucking in fiction are as inexplicable as attraction itself.”
– Maud Newton
“The Carroll excerpt was not just bad, I thought, but bad in that flatulent,...”
– Louis Bayard
“One of the ironies of desire is that it’s often more powerful when...”
– Laura Miller
“I don’t blame novelists for not wanting to write longer sex scenes, given...”
– Laura Miller, on judging Salon’s Good Sex Awards
“This, to my mind, is one of the things literary writing about sex ought to do:...”
– Laura Miller, on judging Salon’s Good Sex Awards
“I have to get the narrative out. It’s a rotting fetus inside me, gnawing...”
– AV Flox, in a missive to B Dean Skibinski regarding writer’s block
“What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (via BleakTheology)
“She should never have called him. She should know by now that over is over...”
– Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard’s Egg
“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa...”
– Raymond Chandler, Red Wind (via sat405)
“Her most recent crime against humanity, the donning of a bold red Alexander...”
– Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon, Michelle Obama’s No-Win Fashion Martyrdom 