Quotes about Passion

Basically when you're a writer and have a mind like mine, my mind has gone platinum multiple times, and I have got a heart of gold; my heart's in the right place.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I have so much going on inside my head in terms of writing, there's such a large space in my life taken up by that. I can't imagine it being taken up by a husband and children and writing, and everything getting its due. I don't believe there is room for all of it. I really don't.

My daughter has no interest in succeeding me in the business. She is going towards social entrepreneurship, an area she is interested in.

I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.

Latinos are not monochromatic. You know, they trace their ancestry back to South America, to Central America, to Mexico, like in my family, and the Caribbean. And it's - we're a very diverse group. And we care about a lot more than just immigration, though we're passionate about having sensible immigration policies that don't go after our families.

After my first track event, sports became my life.