M.J. Rose famous quotes

03-28-2025

What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well.
-- M.J. Rose

#Art #Responsibility #Wonder
There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.
-- M.J. Rose

#Life #Honesty #Lying
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
-- M.J. Rose

#Book #Reading #Avid
There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.
-- M.J. Rose

#Book #Marketing #Plans
Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed
-- M.J. Rose

#Sometimes #Time Love #Sometimes Love
Perfume is magic. Itâ€™s mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams,
-- M.J. Rose

#Dream #Memories #Flower
The secret, which is not so secret after all, is that the people who we love live on in our hearts, in the beat of our blood.
-- M.J. Rose

#Heart #Blood #People
Is there a secret? Yes. AnaÃ¯s Nin and Pauline RÃ©age and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James knows it. It is the secret behind all of our writing. And our reading. Arousal starts in the mind. And grows in the mind. The brain is the most erogenous zone in a womanâ€™s body. That is our secret. And it is what we share.
-- M.J. Rose

#Reading #Writing #Brain
â€Ž"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.
-- M.J. Rose

#Running #Oedipus #Running Away
The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse. It can keep a soul alive even if all that survives is a shimmering. I've even seen it. I've been bathed in it. I've been changed by it.
-- M.J. Rose

#Passion #Destiny #Soul

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