Compulsion Quote by Anonymous

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

It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I…

— Adam Rapp

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't…

— Rod Serling

Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

— Finn Wittrock

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

— Richard Ford

Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

— Finn Wittrock

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more…

— Ernest Hemingway

There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you didn't have…

— Nathan Englander

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

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

— Theodore Dreiser

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

— Rod Serling

I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I…

— Nick Tosches