Compulsion Quote by Kevin Keck

I'm not ritualistic about writing. I try to write as often as possible, which means that I have to be able to write in…

— Cassandra Clare

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock…

— Jonathan Lethem

My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write…

— Jonathan Lethem

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the…

— Eve Bunting

It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I…

— Adam Rapp

There's constant drama, and I'm busy, busy, but at the center of the madness is the desire to write, the need to write. That…

— Jillian Medoff

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

— Barbara Mertz

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is…

— Charles de Lint

When I get into the moment of actually feeling like I want to write, to finish something, I do what I've always read authors…

— Ted Leo

Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to hold myself…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

— Truman Capote

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must…

— Siri Hustvedt