Happiness Quote by Gretchen Rubin

“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.”

— Isabel Allende

Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries -…

— Amy Bloom

“She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life. "Don't punish yourself," she…

— Markus Zusak

“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done or have…

— Michael Stuckey

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

— Markus Zusak

“Don't punish yourself,' she heard her say again, but there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”

— Markus Zusak

I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate…

— Anonymous

I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which I follow…

— Megan Chance

In 'Dark Skye,' I rewrote every one of the Pandemonia scenes over and over before I was happy with them - hundreds of pages…

— Kresley Cole

For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of…

— Kate Zambreno

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

— Megan Chance