Cathy Marie Buchanan Quotes

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

I get a great high from writing.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I'll quit and go fishing? I like to write books. It's the most satisfying thing I do.

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

I really play tennis for me, enjoy it for me.

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

Doing beautiful things is its own reward.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

I’m doing this because I like it.