Compulsive Quote by John Irving

“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.”

— Terry Brooks

It used to be with chocolate. I would put chocolate in my studio and say, "You know, Nat, there's this chocolate you can have…

— Natalie Goldberg

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom

— Anne McCaffrey

With writing, I need a lot of time to sit around and do nothing. But now that I have kids, I just don't have…

— Sofia Coppola

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

— Crystal Hana Kim

I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let…

— Terry Brooks

“When you are writing, you do not need to be as good as Poe, Shakespeare or Rowling. You need to be as good as…

— Giuseppe Bianco

My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think…

— Tom Stoppard

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

— Audre Lorde

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as…

— Guillermo del Toro

I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge