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Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.
Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.
My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.
Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.
Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.
Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.
In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.
Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.
To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.
And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.
What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.
I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.
I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.
I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.
There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.
He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.
I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.
But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.
We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.
That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.
I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.
I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing things and not allowing things outside of myself to distract me or bother me or affect me in any way.
She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.
There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.
More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.
When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.
A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.
Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.
I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with.
In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.
One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.
We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.
L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.
There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.
I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.
I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.
I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.
I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.
They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.
I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.
If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.
The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.
When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.
People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.