Quotes About Passion

Oh FUCK the longings and agonies of youth.

We are formed by what we desire

MAYBE YOU SHOULD BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR. AT LEAST, YOU GET TO READ STUFF THAT'S WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO CAN WRITE! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO BE AN ENGLISH MAJOR, YOU DON'T NEED ANY SPECIAL TALENT, YOU JUST HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT SOMEONE WANTS YOU TO SEE - TO WHAT MAKES SOMEONE ANGRIEST, OR THE MOST EXCITED IN SOME OTHER WAY. IT'S SO EASY!; I THINK THAT'S WHY THERE ARE SO MANY ENGLISH MAJORS!

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

Love was certainly not safe - not ever.

I you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

ARE THEY ESPECIALLY WILD?

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ...

If you don't feel you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then what you're doing probably isn't very vital. If you don't feel that you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don't have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you're not trying to tell enough.

If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they've gotten good at it, and they're expected to do something else to support themselves while the industry that sells this craft supports itself very well, something is badly wrong. Morally wrong.

Why do you guys want to take all the mystery away? Isn't the mystery an exciting part of sex?

If you think you are capable of living without writing, do not write

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

You know what I love... everything.

What do you think I imagine making love to a vagina would be like? Maybe like having sex with a ballroom!

She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found writing to be a great waste of time—a childish self-indulgence, even messier than finger painting—but she admired reading, which she believed was an unselfish activity that provided information and inspiration. She must have thought it a pity that some poor fools had to waste their lives writing in order for us to have sufficient reading material. (page 236)

it was a feeling with nowhere to go. Was that what love was, and how it came to you--leaving you no options for its use?

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct of philanthropy

There is at least one terrible thing about lovers – real lovers, I mean: people who are in love with each other, even then they will relish their every physical contact in a sexual way; even when they're supposed to be in a kind of mourning, they can get aroused. Franny and I simply couldn't have gone on holding each other on the stairs: it was impossible to touch each other, at all, and not want to touch everything.

The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels!

IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT—IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.

If you are luck enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows.