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Writing is a bittersweet addiction. The more it drains you; the more replenished you feel, and you crave it even more.
— Anthea Syrokou
The beauty of existence is my joy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.
— Debasish Mridha
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
— Tiffany Madison
Be a burst of joy.
— A.D. Posey
The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.
— Shannon L. Alder
We ought to pray persistently.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.
— Adam Anderson
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
— Karen Joy Fowler
Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment
— Phillip Gary Smith
Literature is both my joy and my comfort: it can add to every happiness and there is no sorrow it cannot console.
— Pliny The Younger
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
— Tobias Wolff
One writes to find words' meanings.
— Joy Williams
The joy of writing.The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand. — Wislawa Szymborska
Writing comes from the fear of failure not from the joy of winning.
— Debasish Mridha
I started writing to save my life.
— Joy Harjo
Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.
— Virginia Woolf
It's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...
— John Geddes
I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.
— Josh Ritter
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions becomeand such lucidity is a form of joy. — Eva Hoffman
Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.
— Jonathan Weeks
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
— Seamus Heaney
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
— James Salter
Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
— Karen Joy Fowler
I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
Or the man who's half a boy. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
— Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.
— Dawn French
What prevents you from fully expressing yourself?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.
— Euginia Herlihy
Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.
— Jonathan Stroud
I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.
— James Lipton
The joy of writing is the fullness of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
— Harlan Coben
Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come.
— Shana Chartier
I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.
— Millicent Ashby
When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.
— Dawn French
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
— Bret Easton Ellis
On pristine parchment I draw with my skis calligraphic lines of joy, writing poems of movement.
— Patricia Robin Woodruff