Quotes About Passion

Work is a part of my identity but it is not my essence.

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

To be truly human, we all have the right to make art. We all have the right to write.

The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product. Don't try to write something perfect; just write. Don't try to write the whole megillah; just start the whole megillah.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move

Todo niño es un artista. El problema es cómo seguir siendo artista una vez que se crece».

La creación de algo nuevo no es un logro del intelecto sino el instinto de juego que actúa a partir de una necesidad interior. La mente creativa juega con los objetos que ama».

When well-meaning parents and friends push marriage or nine-to-five or anything on us that doesn't evolve in a way that allows for our art to continue, we will react as if we are fighting for our lives—we are.

Jealousy is a map. It tells us—with excruciating precision—just where and for what we yearn.

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

La creación de algo nuevo no es un logro del intelecto sino el instinto de juego que actúa a partir de una necesidad interior. La mente creativa juega con los objetos que ama». CARL GUSTAV JUNG

When I make this point in teaching, I am met by instant, defensive hostility: "But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano/act/paint/write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't. So let's start.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

When we forget ourselves, when we let go of being good and settle into just being a writer, we begin to have the experience of writing through us.

si ser artista te parece demasiado bueno para ser verdad, te inventarás un precio a pagar por ese sueño que te resultará inasequible.

es posible ser un artista y tener éxito económico.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

What gives us true joy?

When we love our writing, we find time for it. The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we SHOULD do something else instead ... the Great Creator has gifted us with creativity. Our gift back is our use of it.

Remember that it is far harder and more painful to be a blocked artist than it is to do the work.

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

the servantless American cook who enjoyed producing something wonderful to eat—would feel the same way.

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.