An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.
Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.
Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
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