“ The hottest sex I’ve ever had is inside language. I don’t mean writing sex scenes, though I can pretty much make a puddle in my chair whenever I write sex scenes. I mean the way that desire pervades all language in my experience — I mean that there is an erotics to language and narrative and poetry that is as hot as bodies are to me. In my book I explore that — the way desire pervades language and experience — the way bodies are in every sentence. People don’t believe me when I say that language can be that — not separate from a body, but in relation to a body erotically…but it’s ok. I still know it’s true. It’s true in Leaves of Grass and in Emily Dickinson and Gertrude Stein and Cixous and Duras and Acker and Faulkner and a million others. ”
Lidia Yuknavitch interviews Sugar from The Rumpus in I’m Standing Right Next to You. (via rainashes)
