Chloe Thurlow

Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous.

I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.

Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.

Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor.

Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one.

Writing isn't something you do because you feel like it. You never feel like it. You write because there's a rat in your brain chewing up the spirals of your DNA and you want to get the words down before they disappear.

When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself.

If you roll a pearl around your mouth it slowly reveals the dreams of oysters, memories of the sea, the taste of orgasm.

The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gesture, a mood, a story frozen in the moment that holds you breathless waiting for the next moment. Understand this, and you understand the erotic.

There is a kind of truth in a well-told lie. When we look back, we don't see things as they were but how we would like them to have been.

When you've been everywhere, tried it all and done it all, what's left is the exploration of self, intellectually and sexually, through curiosity and erotica.

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

Beauty lies between the erotic and the tragic.

Love is possession, a sort of vanity.

The hardest thing in the world is to be original. It seems like our heads are filled with banalities and clichés. You have to keep digging deeper and deeper to try and find a fresh new seam that hasn't been explored.

Just as you dress for the occasion you should undress when reading erotica.

A picture may describe a 1000 words but it will often need 1000 words to describe a picture.

The touch of his fingertips on my back is like a great cellist brushing the strings of his instrument, or a watchmaker turning a tiny screw invisible to the naked eye. The feeling is erotic, magical, and I just want to go home and go to bed.