Happiness Quote by William Saroyan

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that…

— Emma Donoghue

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

— Edward St Aubyn

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

— Maria Semple

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that…

— Emma Donoghue

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

— Edwidge Danticat

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

— Raymond Chandler

One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.

— Raymond Chandler

At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer…

— Michael Cunningham

“Happiness is not a popular subject in literary fiction. We struggle, as writers, to make happiness, contentment, and satisfaction interesting. Perfection often lacks texture.”

— Roxanne Gay

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

— Yann Martel

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

— Marianne Moore

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

— Jennifer Gilmore