Eric Jerome Dickey
I'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.Collection: Imagination
It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
For 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.
Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
When 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?
early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!Collection: Late
She’s 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.Collection: Stars
every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!Collection: New Day
Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.Collection: Creativity
intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!Collection: Intimidating
i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!Collection: Forever
Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.Collection: Lust
the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!Collection: Mistake
I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.Collection: Imagination
Love is for the soul and sex is for the body. Both cry out for satisfactionCollection: Sex
We 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.Collection: Sweet
For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds 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 sprinter’s position, ready to run.Collection: Running
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!Collection: Love Is
People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.Collection: Pain
marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!Collection: Men
common sense is the enemy of romanceCollection: Common Sense
when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!Collection: Honest
Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.Collection: Kissing
changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!Collection: Horse
sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!Collection: Enemy
desire is a beast that must be fed!Collection: Desire
nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!Collection: Tonight
We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocritesCollection: Hypocrite
Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.Collection: Compassion
It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.Collection: Scary
hate is cancer of the soul!Collection: Hate
Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.Collection: Falling In Love
jealously lives with insecurity!Collection: Insecurity
only a fool would argue with a fool!Collection: Fool
we shed the skins of who we used to be!Collection: Skins
we can do anything when we decide to win no matter what!Collection: Winning
wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!Collection: Temptation
don't take many words to break a fragile heart!Collection: Heart
hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!Collection: Hate
can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!Collection: Men
anger and jeaously are first cousins!Collection: Cousin
We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.Collection: Want
You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.Collection: Needs
no expectations, no disappointments!Collection: Disappointment
Once 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.Collection: Desire
you're just a side dish not the main course!Collection: Side Dishes
If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.Collection: Apples
restrictions create frustrations!Collection: Frustration