“I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.”

“You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love--who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

“Passion is absolutely necessary to achieve any kind of long-lasting success. I know this from experience. If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre.”

“I taught him, 'he quavered, "to trust in love. I said:'when love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”

“There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.”

“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”

“If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”

“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”

“You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand… but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.”

“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.”