Desire Quote by Hugh Prather

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

— Janet Malcolm

“Writing is a compulsion”

— Airambooksie

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“We write because we have to, not because we want to”

— Steve Berry

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

— Agatha Christie

“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Writing is a lonely process, but should not be done alone.”

— M.E. Jakobsen

“I believe that what we want to write wants to be written”

— Julia Cameron

“I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.”

— Jules Haigler

“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.”

— ChiLibris

“You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into…

— Florence Nightingale