E.L. James Quotes

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

If you say three things, you don't say anything.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

And you don't have to care, so don't pretend. Nobody needs a best fake friend.

Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.

You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.

I like idiotic comedies.

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life.

INTENTIONS - ACTION = SQUAT

...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

I like the noise of democracy.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.