Bits Quote by Lorrie Moore

“Writing is a compulsion”

— Airambooksie

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

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

Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I…

— Sven Birkerts

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

— Anonymous

The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's…

— Douglas Adams

One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has…

— Niyi Osundare

“Desire to learn. Desire to read. Desire to think. Desire to write.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately…

— Russell Brand

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they…

— Julie Burchill

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader…

— Maryanne Wolf

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

— Cynthia Ozick