Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night.
– David Leavitt
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- I am…sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage. – Chris Adrian
- One passion leads to another. It’s passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion. – Chloe Thurlow
- Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged. – Ernest Hemingway
- Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light. – Alli Condie
- My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It’s very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest. – Robert M Pirsig
- The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. – Saul Steinberg
- Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless. – Lauren Oliver
- Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless. – Lauren Oliver
- It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage… – Robert Frost
- Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God’s loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night! – Victor Hugo
- When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. – David Leavitt
- They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die. – David Leavitt
- As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated-”but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water. – Katherine McIntyre
- There must be a demand, there must be an urge and there must be a will and where there is a demand and a will, there will also be a way. – Patience Johnson
- If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you. – AE Samaan
- What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The consequence of the demand for fast answers to complicated health matters is the endless demand for tests, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals. – Archelle Georgiou
- need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. – Henry Hazlitt
- I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as-”what I knew was that I worried a lot – David Foster Wallace
- Last will never be more important than commitment. Commitment stacks the odds of a successful relationship in my favor. – Gena Showalter
- Vision with action and commitment can change the world, but without action it’s just a dream, and without commitment it’s a nightmare. – Farshad Asl
- Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you. – Carlos A Rodriguez
- If someone tries to undermineyour commitment, re-evaluateyour commitment to them. – Domonique Bertolucci
- A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision. – Nido Qubein
- I sleep and sleep and sleep, yet I still have an unquenchable thirst for it. – Maria Elena
- I love sleep. I need sleep. We all do, of course. There are those people that don’t need sleep. I think they’re called ‘successful. – Jim Gaffigan
- To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come… – William Shakespeare
- The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels. – Mylo Carbia
- I used to be free spirited, now I’m just free of sleep. I got a burning passion in my throat. I got a burning passion inside me. – Tegan Quin
- I would rather die of passion than of boredom. – mile Zola
- In would rather die of passion than of boredom. – Vincent van Gogh
- Hearts have more room than you think – Lindsey Leavitt
- Susie: Maybe we’re all making everything up as we go. – Martine Leavitt
- In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples. – Martine Leavitt
- Everything they’ve said is tainted now. Every day was a lie. – Lindsey Leavitt
- What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits. – Khaled Hosseini
- Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight. – Pawan Mishra
- Night heralded sleep and shadows, demons and dreams. But I heralded the night. – Roshani Chokshi
- His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away. – Hugh Howey
- I would like to be able to breathe-” to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely. – Albert Camus