Quotes by Eric Jerome Dickey

About Eric Jerome Dickey:

Eric Jerome Dickey is a New York Times best-selling American author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life. He is also known for writing several crime novels involving grifters, ex cons, and assassins, the latter novels having more diverse settings, moving from Los Angeles to the UK to the West Indies, each having an international cast of characters.
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We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

Eric Jerome Dickey

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

Eric Jerome Dickey

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

Eric Jerome Dickey

People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be...

Eric Jerome Dickey

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

Eric Jerome Dickey

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

Eric Jerome Dickey

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

Eric Jerome Dickey

Sleeping with strangers will have you walking with enemies.

Eric Jerome Dickey

We must realize that we are all, like Dr. Faust, ready to accept the devil's inducements. The devil is in each one of us in the form of an ego that promises the fulfillment of desire on condition that we become subservient to its striving to dominate...

Eric Jerome Dickey

Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and the listener is equally pained. Persons who are inhibited in expressing feeling are not g...

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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.

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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.

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Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.

Eric Jerome Dickey

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

Eric Jerome Dickey

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.

Eric Jerome Dickey

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 il...

Eric Jerome Dickey

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

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

Eric Jerome Dickey

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameEric Jerome Dickey
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • BornJuly 7, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist