Quotes About Intimacy

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

For many years, people have encouraged me to share my story. Prince was loved the world over, but few knew him intimately. And ours was a rare, almost otherworldly connection.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

Cheating is very rarely about the actual act of being with another person.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

There's nothing quite as raw and honest as one person and one instrument.

When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.

When you know someone for four-five years, you tend to know everything about the person. You tend to know when the other person is reacting to a certain situation, how the other person would react in a situation.

The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

When you're so close to material, it would be as if you had come out of a bad marriage. You would be so close to it that you would be paying attention to detail that may not mean a whole lot for the reader.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their life and soul. The books I love are me, have become me.

When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?

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.

Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.

Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.

Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.

I connect with very few close friends in real life.

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.