Top 65 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Jerome Dickey

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.

It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

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.

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?

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

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.

no expectations, no disappointments!

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.

jealously lives with insecurity!

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!

desire is a beast that must be fed!

jokes are used to hide the truth!

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

a full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!

not all thoughts have to become words!

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.

you're just a side dish not the main course!

hate is cancer of the soul!

we're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!

common sense is the enemy of romance

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

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.

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

Love is for the soul and sex is for the body. Both cry out for satisfaction

marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

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!

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!

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.

Resentment makes anything possible.

It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

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.

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.

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

only a fool would argue with a fool!

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

we shed the skins of who we used to be!

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.

Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

restrictions create frustrations!

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

anger and jeaously are first cousins!

not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

we can do anything when we decide to win no matter what!

For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, ?nds 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.

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

nothings promised, not the rest of tonight, not all of tomorrow!

safety and love are both illusions!