“I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingYearsBookStoriesSeemsGirlPleasureLevelsTalkingBoysWonderfulReaderSixSellsCopiesSix Year Olds Author:Emily Rodda
“Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.” WritingMomentsHandsPleasureTalkingFoodFineMouthsCookingCulinaryThroatDeliciousStrawberriesNectarines Book:The Complete Works of John Keats Source: The Complete Works of John Keats
“'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.” IfsMenNeedsFeelsWritingDoePleasureTalkingPleaseBusyShopsToo BusyPlease Me Author:William Faulkner
“The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.” PeopleIfsTwoCharacterFilmPleasureTalkingSituationKnowingSeeingShotsTablesIronyClassicBombsHitchcockPeople TalkingKnowing More Author:Richard Ayoade
“The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The creation is certainly very analogous. The aesthetic pleasure of the craftsmanship of performance is also very strong in science.” LongArtStrongPleasureTalkingCreationPerformancesVery GoodAestheticVery StrongAnalogiesArt And ScienceCraftsmanship Author:Freeman Dyson
“These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.” PeopleWayFirstsHumansHeartArtDoneHandsDesireLossPleasureTalkingStrangeCreatingHungerDisasterHatedSomething NewGoodsNew ThingsSheerHuman HeartForeignersRestlessnessOpiumHelpers Author:Han Suyin
“We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the course of whole years, and for the same reason the devout like to spend much time with their confessor; it is the pleasure of talking of themselves, even though it be to talk ill.” YearsReasonWholeCoursesPleasureTalkingLoversIllInterviewsWearyEgotismWhole Year Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.” OrderSimplePleasureTalkingFlowerGardenIntenseApplesAdamThirstEdenGarden Of EdenSimple PleasuresThirst For KnowledgePicking Flowers Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton