Quotes About Passion

For readers, one of life's most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers—not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels. The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts: Yes! That's how it is! Yes! I saw that, too! And, of course, That's what I think! That's what I FEEL!

Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.

Lover, she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

I kill with my heart, motherfucker

I write for love, but love doesn't pay the bills.

Love is old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a canibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile, it is always hungry

To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.

hey bitch, you're never too old to rock and roll

You've called your carelessness love and made a virtue of irresponsibility.

This is what romance gets you--a noose around your neck and a crazy woman with two guns somewhere behind you.

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives

If you kill what you love, you're damned.

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. I'm not editorializing, just trying to give you the facts as I see them.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

If I may borrow from George R. R. Martin, she is my sun and stars.

You're a firestarter honey...just one big Zippo lighter

Baby can you dig your man? He is a righteous man!

All I can say in my own defense is quot libros, quam breve tempus—so many books, so little time (and yes, I have the tee-shirt).

Stay hungry. It worked for Michelangelo, it worked for Picasso, and it works for a hundred thousand artists who do it not for love (although that might play a part) but in order to put food on the table. If you want to translate the world, you need to use your appetites. Does this surprise you? It shouldn't. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.