Chloe Thurlow Quotes
Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.
Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.
There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.
The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.
If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.
We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.
Destiny is desire meeting opportunity. You become who you are driven to be.
If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.
One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.
All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?
I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.
A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.
Beautiful girls are not a decoration, arm candy, an object. They are, whether they know it or not, the very essence of our humanity.
When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.
When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself.
He said: I don't like to read. And I said, honey, you haven't found the right girl.
Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled.
Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.
Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one.
Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor.
I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.
Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.
There is a kind of truth in a well-told lie. When we look back, we don't see things as they were but how we would like them to have been.
Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.
Just as you dress for the occasion you should undress when reading erotica.
A picture may describe a 1000 words but it will often need 1000 words to describe a picture.
It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.
You may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need.
If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.
You can cross the Rubicon in a boat without getting wet, but surely, getting wet is the baptism before you begin that new life on the other side.
A woman's heart and a woman's dreams are malleable and can change at any moment. It is the essence of being a woman.
Life is a juggling act with your own emotions. The trick is to always keep something in your hand and something in the air.
Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.
Love is like being on a small boat in the middle of the sea with no compass and no one to rely on except each other.