Quotes About Passion

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

those with the most passionate convictions can justify the most savage cruelties.

In the weeks leading up to his arrival by train in Pittsburgh, Alexander Berkman had been obsessed with the escalating drama at Homestead. He was living with his partner and lover, the anarchist Emma Goldman, in the New England factory town of Worcester, Massachusetts. By day the couple earned a living serving sandwiches and scooping ice cream in a small diner. By night, they made love and dreamed of revolution.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you've got.

I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death...

You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

Just like I was hooked the first time I worked a homicide. I knew then that I was different from everyone else, set apart from the concerns of everydy life that swept everyone else forward, on a river of errands, work, dates, drinking, eating, and sleeping. I was going in a different direction, toward revelation and retribution, and here were damn few of us headed that way.

Long, beautiful, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen... I adore hair!

Inspiration is what keeps us well.

As for my writing. I like it enough to keep going. I dislike it enough to keep going

If it's worth doing, I guess it's worth overdoing.

All stories are ghost stories, about things lost, people, memories, home, passion, youth, about things struggling to be seen, to be accepted by the living.

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

It was love, the furnace into which everything was dropped.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

Don't give up. I don't think any other advice works. Writing is one of those things where you just have to do it. There will be far more people to discourage you than to encourage you. The time never comes to you, the inspiration doesn't come to you. You just sit down and do it." – James Lee Burke

almost exquisite, the slight madness

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.