Certain Quote by Alia Shawkat

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

— Theodore Dreiser

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

— Lorrie Moore

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

— Gloria Steinem

Having the urge to write is one thing; acting on it is another.

— Roy Peter Clark

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

— Lee Kelly

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

— Rick Riordan

I enjoy writing but I wouldn't want to do it all the time because generally you are not writing about things you want to…

— Josh Widdicombe

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

— Steven Galloway

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho

You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way.

— Dorothy Day