Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.
I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
