#enjoyment

The pleasures of being a novelist are many.  But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche.  I'm like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation. ↗

— Eric Liu

#behaved #boomers #china #comfort #early

And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#assemble #because #could #enjoyment #even

If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it. ↗

— Ray Romano

#enjoyment #even #frustrating #game #golf

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible. ↗

— Robert Smith

#business #enjoyment #horrible #i #idea

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#enjoyments #fade #health #life #soul

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#back #came #enjoyment #guide #i

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#appeal #beauty #effort #enjoyment #immediate

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. ↗

— Anna Neagle

#consist #delights #dreaming #enjoyment #i

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#enjoyment #novels #pleasure #writing #love