Robert Ben Garant Quotes

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don't want to leave it. And as a result, I'll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

I am a compulsive writer.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

I'm like a junkie for writing.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

Once I start writing, I can't stop.

I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

Once I started to write, it was like all the lights came on. I was always making up stories in my head. I was a daydreamer. I didn't start as a child, but once I started, I couldn't stop. It was compulsive.

When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'

I think I would die if I couldn't get to the typewriter every day. I really need that.

I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.

I've always been passionate about the stories I want to tell.

I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can't actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just knew that I had too many feelings and I had to kind of get them out in some way.

I love the novel as a form, as an adventure of mind and soul. Really, I absolutely love writing them; they consume my days and nights - what can I say? But I am an avid film student, too: I watch a movie every night.

I always write about something that moves me.

I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested in telling the same stories over and over and over again.

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.