How Quote by Jonathan Franzen Download Open image “The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.” — Jonathan Franzen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare How Need Pleasure Real Writing
The pleasure for me is in the writing process, which has its own challenges. — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible. — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
“Write for the pleasure of writing, but share it for the pleasure of others.” — Lon Grover Copy Share Image
I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Can a better kind of fiction save the world? There’s always some tiny hope (strange things do happen), but the answer is almost certainly… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best -… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
This is how McGregor is, waging mental warfare before the fights. There's no way that guy is going to get in my head. — Chad Mendes Copy Share Image
I think everyone will agree that it doesn't matter how we get to an international tournament. We are going to do whatever it takes. — John McGinn Copy Share Image
Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not… — Suzanne Pleshette Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Pitchers pitch differently. Hitters, hardly anyone has the same stance. That's just how it is. — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
