Quotes About Passion

do you like to write? No. No writer really likes to write. I like to make love and drink wine. At my age I shouldn't lose time with anything else, but I can't stop writing. It's a disease.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

chasing silly rose leaves

To things greater than all things are,   The first is Love, and the second War.   And since we know not how War may prove,   Heart of my heart, let us talk of Love!

Se aprende más de un erudito apasionado que de un montón de ganapanes de ardua brillantez.

None of us should marry, unless we love a man so much we would go through hell for him, which we shall probably have to do.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.' Vincent said that often. "Then why don't people get things?" Asked Lovejoy. "Because they don't want hard enough." Certainly no one could have accused Vincent or Lovejoy of that.

You don't give up writing until writing gives you up. –

The woman I love burns with jealousy, leaps to conclusions, cries, and turns to ice... but when she laughs... the world is mine.

Angry? Yes, I'm angry: I'd be a lousy lawyer if I weren't.

Love me or I will kick you very hard.

only my art held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt was within me, and so I spared this wretched life.

Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for. [Jack kisses Rose passionately] Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward. [Jack kisses the Doctor the same way]

Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.

The passionate love of a mature woman.

Why should one expect that a woman great in intellect should not love greatly, too?

I'm a novelist," Ruth said. "I can't help it. My narrative preferences are all I've got.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. —Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library

He said he didn't need religion because he had jazz.

the fire that sparked us into being, is our unmaking.

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

I love all these people; they have so much passion. They're a little bit crazy, but they use their craziness for their business. They live right.