Francis Spufford Quotes

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

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!

Most things I go through I have to write about.

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

I get a great high from writing.

People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I'll quit and go fishing? I like to write books. It's the most satisfying thing I do.

I can't really stop doing the music because it really feeds me.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the world.

Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.

As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

The music is something I've always done and always loved but always really kept for myself. Something I do for me.

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy.

I always enjoyed writing.

I do make films for personal reasons.

When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.

I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'

Social media gives a lot of people a platform where they can express their feelings. I like to do mine through songs. I let info build up. In some way, it translates into paper whenever I sit down.