Jack Parker > Jack's Quotes

“Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
― William Faulkner

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
― Jim Thompson

“I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.”
― Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280

“I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.”
― Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“...the girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Lovely, forgettable faces, born to flirt and fuck and die.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
― Mae West

“Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”
― Bill Watterson

“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
― Joss Whedon

“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
― Rainer Marie Rilke

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant...”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet