“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.”
“Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...”
“Let us not confuse love with passion. Love, True Love is eternal. Passion just rides as far as the thought of love will take him. Never blame love for passions faults.”
“To write requires passionate love of someone or something - even if it is merely self.”
“I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
“Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.”