“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.” MenWritingFirstsYoungGirlFoundSexDifficultEventsSceneHorseSatisfiedGet UpAttractiveYoung ManPlaywright Author:Peter Shaffer
“Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.” WritingFirstsFactsCertainStuffSatisfiedFinite Author:Rose Tremain
“[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.” WantWritingMeanSaidMatterHardLanguageHard WorkWhat You WantSatisfiedApplicationRevisionRewriting Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
“Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.” WritingThreeHoursSixPagesEightSatisfiedAgony Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.” KnowsWritingSaidTimeMathematicsMathSatisfiedMathematicalProgrammingLengthStatisticsMore TimeFew Words Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
“Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes.” PeopleIfsWritingDoneExampleBecomingPeriodsClothesMereImpressionSatisfiedExcellentOutsidersLocationTravel WritingPrague Author:George Fetherling