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Most people like a little sex in their novels.

— John Sandford

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

— Lauren Willig

In many joyfully-admired recent novels, love appears as little more than sex-manual instruction.

— Paul Horgan

People who love science fiction really do love sex.

— Susie Bright

As I continue to write as M. O'Keefe, I find myself following darker story lines. Plots I might have flinched away from I now rush toward. Using sex as a tool to tell women's stories is endlessly fascinating.

— Molly O'Keefe

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

— Gillian Armstrong

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

— Jane Austen

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

— Ruth Rendell

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

— Janet Street-Porter

✗Opposing Perspectives

Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

— Edmund White

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

— Lynn Coady