Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Some things in literature are inexplicable.
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.
I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.