Andrea Barrett Quotes

I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.

If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.

I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I enjoy the most. I don't even know what the purpose of art is really, I just know that is something that makes me feel satisfied in a way that other things don't. That's all I know, that's why I like to write songs and films or draw. I just like to make things and somehow I find it gives me a feeling of satisfaction that I can't find in other areas of my life.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

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

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

There's a joy in acting that's not present in writing, but there's a gratification in writing and creating that you can't necessarily find in acting.

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

We just like making the music that we make. It makes us super, super happy.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it