I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a…

“Writing is a compulsion”

— Airambooksie

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I…

— Tennessee Williams

“I started writing to get women, or rather a particular woman, and I continue writing because it’s now a compulsion.”

— Jarod Kintz

I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had…

— J. K. Rowling

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing…

— Khaled Hosseini

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of…

— T. R. Pearson

“I feel strongly against professionalism, against someone’s feeling he has to write a book every year to keep his name before the public. I…

— Peter Taylor

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they…

— Julie Burchill

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

— Edward P. Jones

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching…

— Ron Howard

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

— Plato

For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are,…

— Jess Walter

The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which…

— Jacques Ellul

“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.”

— Amit Kalantri

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

— William Bernbach