I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary.
My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
There were always moments where I'd say, 'What else can I do with my life?' But when I was 30 years old and discovered I could write - I wrote 'Black Cloud' in six weeks - it opened up a whole new world for me.
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.
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