C. S. Lewis Quotes

I am a compulsive writer.

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

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.

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

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

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

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

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

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

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.

I'm like a junkie for writing.

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

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

The itch of scribbling.

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you must write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go. It’s not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it

More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

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.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.

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

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

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.

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's only something that I felt compelled to do, and it began to evolve.