與sex有關的文學金句

1. 關於文學作品的構思

"Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release.

"You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on.

"That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax. "~ Colin Greenland

Suspense，真的是一部小說至關重要的東西，不限於情色一種題材。不要管你想表達的思想多麽高大上，如果你無法sustain讀者的興趣，人家棄書了，你就是失敗。

2. 性愛非常難寫

"Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal.

"But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances.

"In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity." ~ Anatole Broyard

難寫的原因是，大部分性愛都差球不多，不像其他的事那麽千差萬別。我覺得你要麽就別寫，要寫，就不能泛泛了，當然更不能畏首畏尾，要有新穎的特色，寫出它的uniqueness。

這裏再附送一個：

“Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.” ~Scott Roeben

所以是種挑戰啊。別整天“那玩意兒誰不會寫啊，”你倒是寫寫試試。

3. 放之四海而皆準

"If the sex scene doesn't make you want to do it - whatever it is they're doing - it hasn't been written right." ~ Sloan Wilson

描寫一桌美食，別人看著都不想吃，失敗。兩個人大汗淋漓，讀者觀眾們老僧入定，失敗。

所以說，sex寫的雖然是場景，是行為，又不是場景，不是行為——而是人這種生物的desire.