What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me.…

Quote by Derrick Jensen

Topics: Fear Quotes, Passion Quotes

Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what...

Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what...

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Higher education is everybody's rite

Higher education is everybody's rite

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and...

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and...

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other...

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other...

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else...

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of...

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of...

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people...

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people...

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound,...

Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound,...

The writer's duty is to keep on writing

The writer's duty is to keep on writing

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to...

A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to...

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce...

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet,...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet,...

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things...

Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things...

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something...

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something...

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation...

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation...

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than...

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than...