Gretchen Rubin Quotes

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

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.

When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Art is the proper task of life.

To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you want, it's then you can say, 'It's fun, boy.'

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had an emotional release. I've always enjoyed that, but you go home and think, that was a good day's work, and you move on.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

When I started writing, it felt good, and I knew I was in the right genre.

The definition of the good life is doing creative things, whether making music, trying to figure out how to do a particular piece of code, or putting together investments.

Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.

For me, working on original material is very important.

I'm having fun creating what I'm creating.

I don't feel pride when I look at a magazine spread I did for Vogue, but writing is really satisfying to me. I can go so deep into people's interior lives, slowly and with complexity, over years and years sometimes. That's very rewarding, in a way that modelling never was.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and I want to tell it the most effective way I can. That's really what I struggle with. And the thought of who may be reading it may be there somewhere in the back of my mind - I'll never say it's not there because I don't know - but it's not really what I'm thinking about.

The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.