Compulsion Quote by Edna Ferber

“Writing is a compulsion”

— Airambooksie

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help themselves! It's…

— Marina Oliver

The writer who is literally an addict, the writer who can't help himself, the writer who HAS to write, can never be anything but…

— Helen DeWitt

A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind…

— John McPhee

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

— Donald Barthelme

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

— Marianne Moore

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The writer works in a lonely way.

— Irwin Shaw

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West