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If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

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.

While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

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

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.