#pleasure

The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've embodied the characters and brought them to life. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#across #board #brought #cast #characters

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. ↗

— William Trevor

#author #autobiography #based #case #distress

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#hunting #pleasure #problem #problem solving #savage

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#entertain #entertainment #entertainment business #gives #lots

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#itself #mind #more #pleasure #really

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#health #luxury #pain #pleasure #rest

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#greatest #greatest pleasures #narrowly #only #pleasures

Can’t hear… call back… good luck…” “Nïx, I know you’re faking the static.” She could picture her sister blowing into her fist directly at the receiver. The static abruptly stopped. “Why?” “It seemed less rude than the alternative.” “What’s that?” Click. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#pleasure-of-a-dark-prince #sisters

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two? ↗

— David Byrne

#life #meaning #music #ocean #pleasure

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#enjoyment #novels #pleasure #writing #love