Dennis Lehane Quotes

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.

I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing.

I'm not thinking when I'm writing, 'How's this going to read?' Or, 'What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?' The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it's deeply satisfying. It's selfish!

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you want, it's then you can say, 'It's fun, boy.'

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

I enjoy writing.

I love getting up in the morning with nothing else to do except write.

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

I continue to wish that writing were easier, that it would flow out completely perfect with no need for revisions.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.

If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.

I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about their day. But I just love writing. I love starting the day with language and seeing if I can make something of it.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

The writer's curse is that the more you fall in love with the work you're doing, the more I think it shows.