01UndatedWriting is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
02UndatedWriting isn't something you do because you feel like it. You never feel like it. You write because there's a rat in your brain chewing up the spirals of your DNA and you want to get the words down before they disappear.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
03UndatedWrite what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
04UndatedDrama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
05UndatedInspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow, did I write this? Did I have that insight? Sometimes you know something is good, good within your own limits, and those parts make life worth living.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
06UndatedHe said: I don't like to read. And I said, honey, you haven't found the right girl.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
07UndatedWriting is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
08UndatedI read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning revealed the flaws and excesses it was trying to conceal.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
09UndatedWho knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
10UndatedA rubber doll with a microchip can imitate human flesh without human feeling. Porn leaves an emptiness inside. Erotica sets up a vibration in the mind that sends pulsing waves through the body.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
12UndatedHappiness is a drug. It creates a biological change in the brain cells that inhibits negative feelings. Happiness boosts energy and increases energy in others.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
14UndatedJealousy is only hurt ego. Revenge is meaningless. Life is abstract. There is no point other than pleasure.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
15UndatedYou must write as if each word is a precious drop of blood, or a tear to be saved in a glass phial.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
17UndatedThe moment of orgasm is like the first dramatic moment of birth when you draw breath and scream out that you are alive. It is hard to imagine the moment when you fade back into the vacuum and draw your last breath.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
18UndatedPerfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
19UndatedIn life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
20UndatedThere is a moment when time stops, when the air grows still, when you enter a state of nothingness, a state of purity and perfection. That is the moment to strive for.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
22UndatedLove hurts. Love is fragile. Love comes like a breath of magic, then departs leaving us feeling empty, alone, a paper cup blowing on the wind.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
23UndatedLove and being in love are not the same. A woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
24UndatedSometimes love is pastel. Sometimes love is black. And sometimes love is fiery red and you feel as if you are going to burn in the flames.Chloe Thurlow / quote ↗
