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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. -- Katherine Mansfield
Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over. -- Eric Brown
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know. -- Henri Nouwen
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. -- Paul Theroux
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. -- Tom Stoppard
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. -- Leo Ornstein
I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it. -- Dan Gilroy
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction. -- Peter Porter
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting. -- Jonathan Tropper
I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me. -- Paul Beatty
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love. -- Bill Keller
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it -- Garry Marshall
I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now. -- Diablo Cody
I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day. -- Cass McCombs
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. -- H. L. Mencken
There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal. -- John Oates

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