Quote by Juvenal

We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.

— John Steinbeck

“They scribble on notepads, the sound of their pens scratching the judgemental air.”

— Emma Cameron

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

— Hisaye Yamamoto

The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

— Frederick Busch

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

— Juvenal

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

— Dani Shapiro

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly…

— Walter Kirn

A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The…

— George V. Higgins

Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not…

— Chinua Achebe

“picture a pencil and eraser engaged in a beautiful dance across the page. The pencil's tip bursts with expression - squiggles, figures, words -…

— Adam Johnson