A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.
Chaim Potok
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
Gail Sheehy
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
Primo Levi
Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.
Hugh Jackman
But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.
Bulent Ecevit
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Edwin Percy Whipple
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
John Gresham Machen
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
Johann G. Hamann
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
Ingmar Bergman
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
Mary MacLane
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
Doris Lessing
Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
Danica McKellar
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
Vincent Canby
Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
Ben Gibbard
I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.
Lee Konitz
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
Gavin Bryars
I believe so much in these products, and it's really satisfying when you believe in something.
Connie Sellecca
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
Follow BrainyQuote on Facebook
Follow BrainyQuote on Twitter
