Itโs scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.
Eric Jerome DickeyI deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
Eric Jerome DickeyWe're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites
Eric Jerome Dickeyit takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!
Eric Jerome Dickeythe only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!
Eric Jerome DickeyFor a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
Eric Jerome DickeyIts impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
Eric Jerome DickeyMost women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.
Eric Jerome DickeyWhen you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?
Eric Jerome DickeyFor some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, ๏ฌnds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinterโs position, ready to run.
Eric Jerome DickeyBut sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
Eric Jerome DickeyEvery man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.
Eric Jerome DickeyOnce desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.
Eric Jerome DickeyAs a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
Eric Jerome DickeyWe tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.
Eric Jerome DickeySheโs a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.
Eric Jerome DickeyI'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.
Eric Jerome Dickeymarriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!
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