I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.
Graham Norton
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
Stewart O'Nan
We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl.... →
P. J. O'Rourke
I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.
Agnes Obel
Having a son is not all pleasure.
Yoko Ono
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get... →
Leo Ornstein
I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to... →
Yotam Ottolenghi
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid
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... →
Cynthia Ozick
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
Grace Paley