If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them. — Derek J. de Solla Price Copy Share Image
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem starts because I feel the urge to write about something from which I carry a great deal of shame,… — Bao Phi Copy Share Image
Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
I always had the urge to write. Not in the sense of wanting to be a writer, but just writing things down,… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
