"To write is to pour oneâ€™s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes oneâ€™s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Struggle Quotes #Flower Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.”
“Getting along with one and other isn't meant to be difficult.”
“Thatâ€™s when sheâ€™d learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.”
“And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.”
“Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I love working out. I mean, I've been doing it for about 20 years every day of my entire life. So I enjoy working out.”
“Everyone I meet is gay, married or crackers”
“Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.”

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