Quotes About Passion

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

I'm the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It's just the opposite of love.

I use a library the same way I've been describing the creative process as a writer — I don't go in with lists of things to read, I go in blindly and reach up on shelves and take down books and open them and fall in love immediately. And if I don't fall in love that quickly, shut the book, back on the shelf, find another book, and fall in love with it . You can only go with loves in this life.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper. — Ray Bradbury

Everywhere you look in the literary cosmos, the great ones are busy loving and hating.

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

Writing is not a serious business. It's a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors who say 'Oh, my God, what word? Oh, Jesus Christ…', you know. Now, to hell with that. It's not work. If it's work, stop and do something else.

It doesn't matter if being so alive kills a man; it's better to have the quick fever every time.

I wish for you a wrestling match with your creative muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories... Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Fall in love and stay in love. Explode. Don't intellectualize. Get passionate about ideas. Cram your head full of images. Stay in the library. Stay off the internet and all that crap. Read all the great books. Read all the great poetry. See all the great films. Fill your life with metaphors. And then explode.

It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.

Be your own self. Love what YOU love.

The artist must work so hard, so long, that a brain develops and lives, all of itself, in his fingers.

Que el mundo arda a través de uno mismo.

My cowardice is such of passion, complimenting the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow.

We might start off by paraphrasing Oscar Wilde's poem, substituting the word 'Art' for 'Love'. Art will fly if held too lightly, Art will die if held too tightly, Lightly, tightly, how do I know Whether I'm holding or letting Art go?

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it.

Second, writing is survival. Any art, any good work, of course, is that.

Rubens! All bosom and bum, big cumulus clouds of pink flesh, eh? You can feel the heart beating like a kettledrum in a ton of that stuff. Every woman a bed; throw yourself on them, sink from sight.

But what would happen is that the world would catch up with and try to sicken you. If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy, or both. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I love to write. It's all I do.