Speaking at a book festival, Amis said female writers are also more &ldquo;sincere&rdquo; about expressing emotion. While men get carried away with the power of being able to conjure a sex scene onto the page, women are able to convey the reality of a fumble beneath the sheets, he explained. <img alt="Sex and Relationships, Women better at writing about sex, says author" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/sex-writer.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 413px; " /> &ldquo;Let me venture a distinction between men&rsquo;s writing and women&rsquo;s writing,&rdquo; a major newspaper quoted him as telling an audience at the festival. &ldquo;There is a difference between real sincerity and literary sincerity. When you&rsquo;re told about the death of a friend you can burst into tears but you can&rsquo;t burst into song. &ldquo;But I would say there&rsquo;s a bit more song in women&rsquo;s writing, there&rsquo;s more real sincerity in women&rsquo;s writing. &ldquo;And before I tiptoe away from this, I&rsquo;d say the reason why women write better about sex - which is almost impossible to write about and no-one has done it very well, ever - is that as a novelist you are in a God-like relation to what you create. &ldquo;You are omnipotent and the question of potency is embarrassing for men. It is the great hidden weakness in men, that potency can fail, and it&rsquo;s not something that troubles women. They have a lot else to worry about, but not that. &ldquo;So once a man is writing a sex scene he&rsquo;s feeling omnipotent and he&rsquo;s forgotten about all those fiascos and no-shows. But women don&rsquo;t, and they write better about it,&rdquo; he explained. Two years ago, Amis attracted the ire of feminists when he said the sexual revolution had its downsides and women had &ldquo;almost got too many powers for the harmony of their own lives&rdquo;. The author was at the festival to discuss his new novel, Lionel Asbo: State of England, a satire about a criminal who wins 139,999,999.50 pounds on the National Lottery. Amis is resident in the United States, where he lives with his American wife.

Women make better writers - at least when it comes to sex - says English novelist Martin Amis who earned a reputation as a misogynist with his penchant for pot-stirring statements about feminism

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