Writing Satisfaction Quotes

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

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

No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.

In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.

One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate your own wit. Of course, this can be carried too far. But it's kind of cool when you crack up a piece of writing, and then realize you wrote it. I recommend this feeling.

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

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.

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

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

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

I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.

You write three pages over six hours, and you don't feel like you've gotten anywhere, but if you've done a beautiful metaphor or a lovely sentence, or you finally got to some moment you wanted, then that's worth it. Then you can close your computer and get a little relief.

When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.

When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you could just do something else - but nothing else makes me as happy.

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

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

At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?

I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

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

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