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I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think happiness makes you positive, and I think that's a good creative place to write from.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.