Comfortable Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

— William Carlos Williams

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write,…

— Wayne Dyer

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of…

— T. R. Pearson

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain…

— Axl Rose

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we…

— Jennifer Egan

If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel…

— Irvine Welsh

I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go…

— Amanda Hocking

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

— Rod Serling