Writing Fulfillment Quotes

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

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

Having my novels published is a dream come true.

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

I hope and pray that I'll be one of those fortunate people who have many, many books to write. I don't begrudge writing. I love the whole thing!

My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?'

I've learned to accept that I'm a children's writer, even if it's not what I set out to become. It's what I should have been all along, and I'll stay in this role as long as I'm a writer.

I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

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

Write what you love and love what you write.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.

I don't really love writing. I don't love the feeling of starting a new file. But I love the feeling of overcoming and accomplishing.

I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.