I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. Votes: 14
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. Votes: 11
I don't believe in happy endings. Votes: 11
I never cared about money. Votes: 7
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. Votes: 2
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. Votes: 0
Naked is the best disguise. Votes: 0
This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? Votes: 0
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. Votes: 0
Why is the measure of love loss? Votes: 0
Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late! Votes: 0
The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art. Votes: 0
When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. Votes: 0
Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire. Votes: 0
Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. Votes: 0
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle. Votes: 0
Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea. Votes: 0
I'm not a quitter. Votes: 0
Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one Votes: 0
unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. Votes: 0
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. Votes: 0
It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Votes: 0
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. Votes: 0
do it from the heart or not at all. Votes: 0
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out. Votes: 0
Life was a pre-death experience. Votes: 0
Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead. Votes: 0
When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. Votes: 0
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Votes: 0
We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel. Votes: 0
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something. Votes: 0
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere. Votes: 0
Their throats were bare for God. Votes: 0
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. Votes: 0
Trust me, I'm telling you stories. Votes: 0
The free man never thinks of escape. Votes: 0
No emotion is the final one. Votes: 0
Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. Votes: 0
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now. Votes: 0
Passion is not well bred. Votes: 0
I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all. Votes: 0
I have no idea what happens next Votes: 0
There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'. Votes: 0
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. Votes: 0
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. Votes: 0
Trust your creativity. Votes: 0