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.
Becoming a writer wasn't a choice (there would have been far more worthwhile things to do); it was the best, most fruitful way of being a bit ill.
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.
The itch of scribbling.
I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, "He's puttin' that in his cash register!"
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.
I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.
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.
My books flow. People say they pick them up and they can't put them down. It's because when I'm writing them I pick my pen up and I cannot put my pen down.
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
I'm an actor, and, beyond that, the thing I do most compulsively is writing. So I come at it very much from this sense of character. I get interested in people. And I feel confident in my capacity to absorb and manifest the characteristics of people. I have a real auditory hang-up for dialogue; re-creating the way people talk really is an addiction in my brain.
