Childhood Quote by J. E. Buckrose

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

— John Braine

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that…

— Lena Dunham

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.

— David Rakoff

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

— Stephen King

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

— Vladimir Nabokov

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more…

— Anita Desai

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's…

— Steven Knight

Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional…

— Antonya Nelson

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

— Franz Wright

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

— Lewis Black