Noah Hawley Quotes

I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do.

But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

I am a compulsive writer.

I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing.

I think I needed rather than wanted to be an actor. There is not another way to put it.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.

You have a transportation fetish. I have a Gideon fetish. It's been weeks.

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

I'm addicted to acting.

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.