Whatever happened to taking simple pleasure in the act of writing?

These include the simple pleasure of looking at a photograph.

"What was the last moment of simple pleasure you remember having, David?"

He held her a moment, for the simple pleasure of it.

In the late 1980's, a simple pleasure became big business.

Is that too much to ask, to be allowed the simple human pleasure of a friend?

He released himself to the simple pleasure of being close to her.

Others want a particular car for the simple pleasure of driving it.

No matter how much money one had, it was about the simple pleasures.

Now even that simple pleasure had gone dry for her.