Passion Quote by George Sand

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“L'homme est une passion inutile”

— Jean Paul Sartre

“First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then there must…

— Ernest Hemingway

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion.…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, forced himself to write by disrobing and giving his clothing to his valet with strict instructions that it…

— Wilma Davidson

“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's…

— Ivan Goncharov

“He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or…

— Galt Niederhoffer

“Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en…

— Michel de Montaigne

“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”

— Nelson Algren

“Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a great writer and son of a bitch. Just an abject human being. It’s incredible that the coldest moments of his abjection…

— Roberto Bolaño