Quotes About Passion

I always thought being a writer was the highest calling there was. Don't you?" - author Mark Merlis

But I was right and the real world seemed increasingly nonsensical. Why train for years to do a job you bitched about all day? Didn't it make more sense to follow your dreams and maybe do a little good at the same time? I didn't want to be a lawyer or a bank manager or a goddamn burger flipper. We only get one life and I wanted mine to be exciting...

Why train for years to do a job, you bitched about all day? Didn't it make more sense to follow your dreams and maybe do a little good at the same time.

Sure, I could give advice I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

Football is all about sentiment; if it weren't then we'd all support Manchester United.

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

When the fanatic is confronted with facts, statistics, history, experience, ethics, faith, or what have you, it is of no consequence. He has found his calling and he will not be dissuaded from it. Again, "the cause" is greater than all things.

If you're a writer, you're not a short order cook. Forget what people want. Write what you want to write, be true to yourself

When you write, bleed copiously from an open wound. Write from the depths of your heart.

If you write for money or fame you will be disappointed. If you do so for the love of it, you will be rich in satisfaction.

Don't write for the market or for others. Write what you know, love and above all, write what you would love to read.

A writer has two choices: either write or curl up and die.

A writer's work is never done, the meter is never off.

Whatever art--writing, painting, sculpture, acting, dance, music, or any other--there will be frustration & travails. It's all worth it

Write fearlessly, from the heart; pour your guts out and don't give a damn about what anyone thinks.

There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. A writer's task is to arrange them into sentences telling a unique story with guts, heart & soul.

A writer's downfall is chasing the marketplace. Doing that, you only see it's rear end. Write from the heart, not for the market.

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila

Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.

My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the floor and wreckage in its wake.

As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.

If a man finishes a poem,he shall bathe in the blank wake of his passionand be kissed by white paper.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.