Top 70 Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

2. “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

3. “Its impossible to explain creativity. It’s like asking a bird, ‘How do you fly?’ You just do.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

4. “Knowledge enlightens.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

5. “You must have a goal in life. We all should have goals. Or we are lost.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

6. “You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

7. “Falling in love is like falling off a building – it doesn’t hurt till the end.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

8. “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.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

9. “Marriage is hard work, and you have to show up in hard hat and boots every day of every year.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

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

— Eric Jerome Dickey

11. “We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

12. “Resentment makes anything possible.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

13. “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.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

14. “If you’re craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won’t do...”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

15. “He thinks being black means having plenty of attitude; I think having plenty of knowledge is what black is all about;.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

16. “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 illusion that this is real.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

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

— Eric Jerome Dickey

18. “Put a hat on the soldier. The soldiers don’t need to have an egg for breakfast, unless you want to buy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for the next eighteen years. Let’s have fun, but keep it safe.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

19. “As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story – to tackle different characters with different issues.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

20. “Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn’t make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

21. “But that’s not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

22. “He looked like a brand-new heartbreak waiting to happen.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

23. “I mean, I am human, got feelings and desires, and might ultimately want the same thang, but can I get a moment of mental stimulation first?”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

24. “And we all know when a sistuh gets mad, a sistuh gets athletically creative.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

25. “She returned to consciousness only to find herself in an unescapable nightmare.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

26. “Can’t kill something that doesn’t have a heart.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

27. “She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

28. “Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

29. “Sometimes you have to let people change and grow on their own, you have to back off and hope it turns out for the best.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

30. “We’re all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

31. “When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don’t know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn’t really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

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

— Eric Jerome Dickey

33. “Like she said, love wasn’t a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

34. “The most jealous and insecure are the ones who are guilty of betrayal. The ones who are the angriest are those who are pulling cons themselves, only to find out they’re being conned as well. A thief hates to be robbed, and a cheater always wants you to be loyal while they are being unfaithful. When suspicions arise and the questions start, they are always defensive, always volatile. A thief takes being robbed personally, the same way a player falls apart when he finds out he is being played.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

35. “Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

36. “Love ain’t never been a rational beast.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

37. “Baby, ain’t no fun being a queen living in a kingless castle.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

38. “Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

39. “He dropped his towel. He showed me what I had gotten myself into, what wanted to get into me.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

40. “But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

41. “Lust is a master showman who disguises himself as love, and love is a mythical creature who keeps habitat with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and other lies we have been fed.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

42. “I opened my purse, shifted through panty shields, bills, and birth control pills – I call them poppa-stoppas – and took out my menstrual calendar.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

43. “Desperation’s heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

44. “We all give up part of ourselves to be with anyone. Relationships change our trajectories.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

45. “I read this book, it said a woman should think of her virginity like it’s a window. And every time you sleep with a guy, it’s like letting him put his fingerprints on your window. Staining your glass.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

46. “The path to love wasn’t a smooth road. Love would show up while you were busy with another love, leaving you to decide.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

47. “I told Chiquita if a man hadn’t made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn’t want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

48. “Brotha needed to buy a vowel and rent a verb, then get a roll of duct tape slapped on that broken English.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

49. “Chiquita was dancing with a brother who was so old I’d bet he used to baby-sit God.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

50. “I was erotic. I was beautiful. I was powerful.”

— Eric Jerome Dickey