I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Whenever I write songs, it's my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don't as often feel compelled to write when I'm… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I don't sit here and make these stories up. They are delivered to me, over time, by some relentless and shadowy demand.… — Julian Lorr Copy Share Image
Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not… — Gloria Anzaldua Copy Share Image
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
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