Excessive Writing Quotes

Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.

After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.

I have composed too much.

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain.

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.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.

One tends to write beyond what's needed.

When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.

I'm an indulgent writer - I'm not sure, however, that's something I'm interested in changing. Writing should be indulgent: you should take big risks on the page, you should make big mistakes, you should be excessive at times. I let myself do as a writer what I probably would be less likely to allow as an editor.