“Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.”
“For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.”
“The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading”
“Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for the sheer sensual pleasure of it. I liked that idea. It made me want to write lots of stories, to give myself that pleasure.”
“Writing is a pleasure but family is a blessing!”
“But maybe it's wrong of me to complain … I'm alive after all … and I lose an enemy or two every day … cancer, apoplexy, gluttony … it's a pleasure the number that pass on! … I'm not hard to please … a name! … another! … there are good things in life …”