Happiness Quote by Fannie Hurst Download Open image “I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.” — Fannie Hurst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness Happy Unhappy Writing
For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy. — Crystal Hana Kim Copy Share Image
I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy. — Matthew Nable Copy Share Image
I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious. — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage? — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose.… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content, knowing that he would never see anything so beautiful again. He wished he could have seen it for longer. More, he wished he could have taken it apart, studied it all the way down to its… — Mira Grant Copy Share
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
