For 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 DickeyIts impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
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 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 DickeyPeople know your tragedies and they treat you like youโre not human. Like youโre a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? Theyโre stuck on that person I used to be. They canโt see that old life as just a moment in time that Iโve moved on from. It was a horrible life.
Eric Jerome Dickey