E.L. James Quotes

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

There is no gift more great than love.

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

Trapped dreams must die.

Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.

Right, oh, yeah, Happy 9/11! Celebrate the day, right?

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.

I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.

I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.

The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

What we think about God-what we think God is like-will determine the relationship we have with God.

God is more eager to forgive us than we are to be forgiven.

It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.

If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

We generally write best of what we ourselves have seen.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.