Writing Joy Quotes

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

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

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

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

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life.

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

The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.

I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: 'Am I being joyful?' And if you've got a writer's block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you're writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. They're the best moments in a day of writing -- when an image appears that you didn't know would be there when you started work in the morning.

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

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!

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.