Quotes by Chloe Thurlow

When youve been everywhere, tried it all and done it all, whats left is the exploration of self, intellectually and sexually, through curiosity and erotica.

When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself.

The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gesture, a mood, a story frozen in the moment that holds you breathless waiting for the next moment. Understand this, and you understand the erotic.

Beauty lies between the erotic and the tragic.

Love is possession, a sort of vanity.

There is a kind of truth in a well-told lie. When we look back, we dont see things as they were but how we would like them to have been.

The hardest thing in the world is to be original. It seems like our heads are filled with banalities and clichés. You have to keep digging deeper and deeper to try and find a fresh new seam that hasnt been explored.

If you roll a pearl around your mouth it slowly reveals the dreams of oysters, memories of the sea, the taste of orgasm.

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous.

I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.

Heres one prophecy the writer can make - youll never be rich and youll probably be poor.

Writing is draining. Every word is like lifting a stone and levering it into place. Your head aches, your muscles ache and every word you conjure up is heavier than the last one.

Writing isnt something you do because you feel like it. You never feel like it. You write because theres a rat in your brain chewing up the spirals of your DNA and you want to get the words down before they disappear.

Write what you want to write. Thats the only advice a writer will ever need.

Drama copies life in there being a sense of waiting, of a promise never fulfilled.

Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow, did I write this? Did I have that insight? Sometimes you know something is good, good within your own limits, and those parts make life worth living.

He said: I dont like to read. And I said, honey, you havent found the right girl.

Writing is like a religion to those who dont practise, an act of faith for those who do.

I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I usually work in the dead hours of night and surprising the manuscript mid-morning revealed the flaws and excesses it was trying to conceal.