Eric Jerome Dickey

“Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.”

“Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“Then she called Matthew.He answered, "Where the fuck are you? I've been calling you for hours."She said, "I was asleep. Just woke up. What's the problem?""Don't tell me you're still in your hotel room in your bed.""Didn't I say I just woke up? Still in bed. Needed some sleep. Just waking up. . . .""Is that right?". . . "Where are you right now?""Antigua motherfucking Yacht Club. Room twenty-fucking-nine. Sitting on a . . . four-poster bed that has a damn mosquito net pulled back so I know I can see what the fuck I see. And I see an empty four-poster bed . . . But hell, maybe I'm wrong, because I know I didn't marry a goddamn liar. So I guess if I'm in your room and you're in the goddamn bed, just waking up, then either I am as blind as a fucking bat or you must be fucking invisible.”

“All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.”

“It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.”

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

“And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.”

“Sleeping with strangers will have you walking with enemies.”

“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.”

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

“... honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain’t that fucking attractive.”

“DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities”

“That’s what sex does: it starts relationships and it verifies the end of relationships.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”