Children Quote by David Brin

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

— Juvenal

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

— Hisaye Yamamoto

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

— Juvenal

Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully…

— Paul Auster

“Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Reading is a gift, but only if the words are taken into the soul--eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“THE VOICE YOU HEAR WHEN YOU READ SILENTLY is not silent, it is a speaking- out-loud voice in your head; it is *spoken*, a…

— Thomas Lux

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.

— Joyce Carol Oates

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

— Julio Cortazar