The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.