3 Quotes & Sayings By Adam Thirlwell

Adam Thirlwell is an award-winning author whose work has been translated into numerous languages and published in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, China and Korea. He was awarded the Dylan Thomas Prize for Literary Excellence as well as the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Fiction. His debut novel The Last Man won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. His first collection of short stories, It's What We Do (2010), won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; it was also longlisted for The Orange Prize 2011.

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When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other. Adam Thirlwell
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I don't think I could ever live with either a man or a woman for a long time. Male and female are attractive to my mind, but when it comes to the sexual act I am afraid. In every situation I need a lot of stimulation before I am conquered by the forces of passion and lust. But confusion, before and after, is the dominant factor. I dreamed many times about a mature man with experience who would have the vigour of a boy but an adult's polished methods. Strangely enough, I also dreamed about women of my mother's age who were ideal lovers. These dreams came superimposed on one another. Sometimes the masculine element was dominant, sometimes the feminine one. At other times I wasn't sure. I saw a female body with male organs or a male body with female ones. These pictures, blended together in my mind, occasionally brought pleasure but more often pain. Adam Thirlwell