“Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson stand alone above women poets, because poetry's mystical energies are ruled by a hierach requiring the sexual subordination of her petitioners. Women have achieved more as novelists than as poets because the social novel operates outside the ancient marriage of myth and eroticism.” GivingEnergySocialNovelPoetAncientMythAccessNovelistsMuseMysticalHomosexualEroticStand AloneEmilyGreat PoetSubordination Author:Camille Paglia
“In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.” MadeBookNovelSubjectsSkinsBreathsExtraordinaryConvictionNarrativePhrasesClayErotic Author:Alberto Manguel
“I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.” YearsNovelWrittenEroticOld Woman Author:Gloria Vanderbilt
“I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.” HumorLanguageNovelSpeechJokesWitSpeakersPornographyEroticWit And Humor Author:James C Humes