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"This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex."
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"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development."
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"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."
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"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
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"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
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"A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse."
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"There's no sex in Middle Earth."
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"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color."
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"The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me."
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"It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic."
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"Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man."
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"I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job."
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"This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex."
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"I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras."
Food
"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction."
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"In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other."
Literature
"I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer."
Fame
"Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food."
Food
"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."
Management
"I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror."
Work
"My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove."
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