One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and as pretentious as that might sound, there's a real reason for it. It's not the idea of tricking you; it's the idea of taking you along on this particular journey the way you would in any other theatrical situation. But, hopefully, you're going to be fooled at the end.
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.
I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it’s been played on me twice.
Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.
The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.
I’ve got. . . ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it
They should call fishing what it really is. . . tricking and killing!
I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.
Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be. . . " He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us. " Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.
