#satisfy

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#classical #coherent #ending #enough #feel

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#enough #glory #i #lived #long

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying. ↗

— Bill Condon

#dramatic #i #lives #people #rarely

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying. ↗

— Ken Follett

#draft #easiest #every #first #fun

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#contributed #could #done #end #feeling

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#brevity #find #i #intellectually #intensity

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. ↗

— John Rawls

#citizens #criterion #enact #ideally #legislators

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that. ↗

— Ann Richards

#i #i can #really #right #right wing

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#cannot #happiness #heart #include #must

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#conceit #consciousness #danger #even #finest