Mike Cernovich Quotes

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

I am a compulsive writer.

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.

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.

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 have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

I'm like a junkie for writing.

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 have a writing addiction.

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

I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

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

You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I am. The choice is how good you are going to be at it and how hard you are going to work.

How can you stop writing?

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

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.

I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at the mercy of whatever talent you have.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.