Born Quote by Anonymous

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

— Juvenal

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

— Juvenal

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

— Alistair Maclean

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

— Hisaye Yamamoto

I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something…

— Gregory Maguire

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it…

— C. S. Lewis

I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're born with.

— John Mortimer

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

— Anne Sexton

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

— Oscar Wilde

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

— Lisa Marie Presley

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I…

— Peter Mullan