I've always loved pretty words and sentiments, and I got
much pleasure writing letters to friends getting married, struggling through a hard time, or celebrating a landmark.
Not exact matches
Randy Alcorn says as
much,
writing, «Shouldn't we find even greater
pleasure in anticipating the day when God will swallow up death forever (Isaiah 25:8), permanently reverse the curse (Revelation 22:3), and unite us with our Savior and eternal family?»
The ordinary
pleasures of life — both those simply given to us in nature and those derived from culture — play a large role in Lewis's thinking and account for
much of the power of his
writing.
As Mireille Guiliano (in French Women For All Seasons)
writes, «The joy of living is in direct proportion to how
much pleasure you know how to derive from every aspect of living.»
It's been such a nice surprise that
writing for my own
pleasure would ultimately introduce me to a community of engaged and stimulating people who have taught me so
much more than I could have imagined.
It is so
much pleasure to read your blog, your
writing just takes directly into your train of thoughts.
Your posts are such a
pleasure to read, you
write with so
much passion and talent.
That said, despite its cliches and sometimes woefully
written dialogue, this still has
much to offer in terms of entertainment and it's a
pleasure to see Gibson calling the shots with his usual visceral approach.
«I get so
much pleasure out of seeing what she's going to
write,» Baumbach told me of his collaboration with Gerwig.
The screenplay,
written by McQueen and Enda Walsh, has many good moments, such as the clean clothes the Brits force the Irish to wear to receive visitors (Otherwise they are naked, in protest of wearing criminals» clothes), a masturbation scene wherein one prisoner, in a cell smeared with feces, somehow feels embarrassed to waken his cellmate with the sounds of his self -
pleasure, the scene of how the Brits need to powerwash the excremented cells, only to have the prisoners returned to the cells and break their cots and other furniture in protest — again inflicting almost as
much brutality on themselves as the Brits do.
To be perfectly honest, I've been so busy
writing and teaching lately that I haven't been able to do
much reading for
pleasure.
So I have faith that some readers, if not all, will find as
much pleasure reading Between Mountain and Sea as I had
writing it.
Money, fame, a career where you can
write books at your own
pleasure and not worry
much about anything except enjoying respect and validation that the world will give you.
I didn't have
much time to
write for
pleasure in college and law school.
And other than a few moments of mild
pleasure gained from
writing your super clever and snarky response, there's absolutely nothing to be gained from being nasty with anyone,
much less people who can directly affect your book sales.
It has been a
pleasure to read your arctiles and I hope you will be here
writing much longer than the next five years.
That I never
wrote to tell him how
much pleasure his work gave me.