E. L. James Quotes

It's much easier to wear your pain on the outside.

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.

I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.

God forbid that women have fantasies.

People are talking about sex. They're talking about sex with their husbands. They're talking about sex with their girlfriends. They're talking about sex with their partners. And because of all of this communication, women are having much more intimate relationships, which is fantastic.

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

Never trust a man who can dance.

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

The candle flame is too hot. It flickers and dances in the over-warm breeze, a breeze that brings no respite from the heat. Soft gossamer wings flutter to and fro in the dark, sprinkling dusty scaled in the circle of light. I'm struggling to resist, but I'm drawn. And then it's to bright, and I am flying too close to the sun, dazzled by the light, fried and melting from the heat, weary in my endeavers to stay airborn. I am so warm. The heat... It's stiffling, overpowering. It wakes me.

I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

My inner goddes has her sequins on and is warming up to dance the rumba.

I don't think [Fifty Shades of Grey is] a model for anything. Except maybe in bed.

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.

Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. And it is such a fantasy. It takes you away from doing the dishes and the laundry. I think of this as a contemporary romance rather than erotic fiction.

I'm not a great writer.

I think women love to read love stories.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me