Bags Quote by Junot Diaz

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

— Cynthia Voigt

I am a compulsive writer.

— Ruskin Bond

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

— Rita Dove

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

— H. L. Mencken

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is…

— E. L. Doctorow

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

— Justin Halpern

I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.

— Michael McDonald

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa