Laura Oliva Books: The Devil's Kitchen

"You have to look into this. You're the only ones who will."

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"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new." -Ursula K. LeGuin

"I can still taste the sin of you on my lips." -Nikki Andrews

"All evil is good become cancerous." -Isaac Asimov

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ” ― Elinor Glyn

"If you don't 'sing your world into being', no one else will." - Carolyn See

"It's not what you do. It's the way you do it—stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared." - Gypsy Rose Lee

“Technique in art has the same value as technique in love-making. On the one hand, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal, and on the other hand, so does heartless skill; what you want is passionate virtuosity.” – John Barth

"Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know." - Amy Lowell

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." - Benjamin Disraeli

“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I try to leave out the parts that people skip." ~Elmore Leonard

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." ~Mark Twain

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." ~E.L. Doctorow

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. ~Arthur Polotnik

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."
- Charles Dickens

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs"
- Stephen King

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The Devil's Kitchen

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