Quotes About Pleasure

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.

Working with good actors is a pleasure as acting is all about reacting.

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction.

Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.

Ranveer is a great co-actor. He is extremely reactive and extremely responsive. He is a pleasure to work with.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.

I'm supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words.

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Who wouldn't want to play for Real Madrid? Like Manchester, they are one of the best clubs in the world - and it would be a pleasure to play for them.

Real Madrid's interest? Yes, it's true, Real Madrid were interested in me. It was an honour and pleasure for me, it means that I have worked well in these years.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

I actually don't bake too often, but I love eating baked goods!

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

You gotta really enjoy off days.

The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.

I am a gourmet. I cannot stay away from my favorite dishes.

Believe me, any time chocolate is in a 50-foot radius, I am the first one to grab a piece and eat it!

It was an absolute pleasure working with Stephen Graham. I've admired his work for many years, and what he brings is that real sense of authenticity.