Book Quote by Edwidge Danticat

“Happiness is not a popular subject in literary fiction. We struggle, as writers, to make happiness, contentment, and satisfaction interesting. Perfection often lacks texture.”

— Roxanne Gay

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

— William Saroyan

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

“I don't think that a novel is supposed to be a guide book to happiness any more than it's supposed to be a journal…

— Tom Robbins

“The endless piles of genre fiction are the key to happiness. They’re the key to picking out the things that actually make you happy…

— Steven Lloyd Wilson

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

— Edward St Aubyn

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.

— Anonymous

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies…

— Amy Bloom

At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer…

— Michael Cunningham

Happiness is not always reading the same page in the same book. Sometimes it is just wanting to hold the others book for them…

— Faye Hall

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

— Paul Auster