American author
The grateful world is a world of joyful people.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Book of Joy
To make love to a fantasy was the second betrayal of a libertine.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
I could not possibly love one woman, having known the holiness of all women.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
A woman's passion is nothing less than the sea that tosses a man's ship, and to weather the storm he must use skill and humility to ride her waves, having given up his own course and dragged down his sails, letting the sea take him where it will. For a sailor who knows that there is nothing to fear, this is the greatest adventure of life, as he lashes himself to the mast, knowing that his surrender is his strength and the chance for his redemption.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
Seduction and passion are simply life longing for life.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
Is it the beloved who evokes love, or the lover who has love to give?
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
Outer-body-experiences are hard to describe, since all we really know are our five senses. Suffice it to say that there was a tingling sensation and a sense of the laws of gravity loosening their grip on my body, much like being an astronaut floating above the surface of my house.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
guest post, The Dark Phantom, October 29, 2008
Happy marriage is the greatest wealth a man can possess, and one that a peasant can have as easily as a king.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
The heart is forever unfaithful, and the feelings of love will come and go, but true love is not about what you feel. It is about what you do.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
Publishing your first fiction is somewhat like sailing during hurricane season.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
interview, The Writer's Life
Dreams were not messengers from the spirit world. They were simply the detritus of the brain's random firings during REM sleep.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
Eye of the Whale
If we could live for a million years, then maybe it would be worthwhile to create some problems. But our life is short. Now you see, we are guests here on this planet, visitors who have come for a short time, so we need to use our days wisely, to make our world a little better for everyone.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Book of Joy
Having already worked in publishing for a number of years, I was not naive when I entered the submission fray. I knew I would have only one chance to submit my fiction to my agent, and that she would have only one chance to submit it to publishers. So I held on to it, revising and polishing obsessively over twenty-three drafts before I shared it with my agent.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
guest post, The Dark Phantom, October 29, 2008
It is hard to convey the night-waking, body-trembling experience of putting a creation of one's soul out into the world for acceptance and rejection.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
guest post, The Dark Phantom, October 29, 2008
I think it is essential to promote your work, since there are over 100,000 books published each year, and readers can fall in love with books they've never heard about.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
interview, The Writer's Life
In Heaven (if there is one), we are held accountable for every joy we failed to taste.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
interview, goodreads
To give love to one who needs it is a far greater pleasure than to receive it.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
"Happy marriage" is a contradiction in terms.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
To know a mature woman is to know more than her body. It is to know her dreams and her secrets. It is to know that a dance is a fight, and a fight is a dance, and that passion and compassion beat in the same breast.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
A true lover must know how to receive as well as to give.
DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS
The Lost Diary of Don Juan