Amusement Quote by Frederick Marryat

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write…

— Mark Twain

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill…

— Edna Ferber

“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.”

— Carol Morgan

“it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

— Nora Roberts

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

— Chinua Achebe

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

— Brenda Ueland

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

— Bebe Moore Campbell

If you're going to write something, that's going to be read by people, a lot of people, you hope it will not only entertain…

— Stan Lee

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

— Frank Murphy

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time…

— Irvine Welsh