Quotes About Passion

I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.

cherish your creative spark, because there's no one else who can light it back up for you when it burns out.

As they made their way to the coast, he bemoaned the hotel trade in the manner, Dorrigo felt, that those who love what they do bemoan their passion the most.

You see, reason, gentlemen, is a fine thing, that is unquestionable, but reason is only reason and satisfies only man's reasoning capacity, while wanting is a manifestation of the whole of life. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.

Purpose is the quality we chose to shape our lives around.

Why would a guy spend five years writing a book when he can buy one for ten bucks?

Worse fates than being forced into a place where your choice of acts is limited to those where your soul burns brightest.

When I looked at the curve of her hips and thighs on the window shelf, I could feel the way she had writhed back against me so clearly it was almost virtual.

Durante toda una eternidad, nuestras palabras pasaban de los murmullos a las exclamaciones excitadas. Cambiábamos de postura y nos mordisqueábamos suavemente, mientras me embargaba un sentimiento que amenazaba con desbordarme por mis ojos. La presión era insostenible; me abandoné y descargué en ella mientras la sentía buscar los últimos vestigios de mi erección con sus últimas contracciones.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. PABLO PICASSO

we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

Remember, there is a creative energy that wants to express itself through you";

The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. C. G. JUNG

Self-expression is something that does not—and should not—ever stop.

We must actively, consciously, consistently, and creatively nurture our artist selves.

The great acting coach Michael Chekhov advised his students, "If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

Real" artists are people who have learned to create despite their fears. They

If we are invested in a writing life—as opposed to a writing career—then we are in it for the process and not the product.

Art? You just do it. MARTIN RITT

When we write from the inside out rather than the outside in, when we write about what most concerns us rather than about what we feel might sell, we often write so well and so persuasively that the market responds to our efforts.

There is just this dream, this feeling, this urge, this desire. There is seldom any real proof, but the dream lives on.

The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate— it is life, intensified, brilliant life. ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON