Hanif Kureishi Quotes

I'm like a junkie for writing.

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.

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

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

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.

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I have a writing addiction.

Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Once I start writing, I can't stop.

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.

I write manically.

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

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

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

I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood.

How can you stop writing?

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

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

I write, I write, I always write.

I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.

Novel writing wrecks homes.