Charlotte Bronte Quotes

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.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

When you receive a script and it leaps out at you and it's breathing with its own heartbeat - I suppose when you read something like that it's not a choice of whether you do it or don't. It feels like it chooses you, so you just do it.

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

No one begs you to be a poet or write a 1000-page poem. You have to be fueled by a drive, a conviction - a need, a necessity, a vision that is so pressing that it has no other outlet but through you. That doesn't mean that you are unconscious or in trance, but there can be moments like that.

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

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.

When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.