“My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.” GivingWritingForceHoursSleepPleasureTriflesUnproductive Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.” WritingKindPleasureMaterialsInstrumentsSingersSeekersCradleNancyYounger Sister Author:Suzi Quatro
“I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.” WritingBelieveWellsMomentsLiteraturePleasureDon't Believe Author:Nora Roberts
“My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?” IfsWritingMindBookTurnsNextPleasure Author:Yann Martel
“I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.” WorldWantWritingMindWellsMayArtBookAbleArtistPleasureAttentionStudyPiecesProductsReaderSucceedStructureAdmireDividing Author:Annie Dillard
“It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.” WayGivingWritingStoriesNamesPleasureProduceGive Me Author:J. R. R. Tolkien