Anything Quote by Lorrie Moore

Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

— Jean Grenier

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.

— Alia Shawkat

Writing isn't everyone's favorite thing to do or what their thing is.

— Lee DeWyze

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

— Gloria Steinem

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.”

— Gloria Steinem

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have…

— Julianna Baggott

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

— Theodore Dreiser

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

— Joseph O'Neill

“Writing is my passion, expression and an incessant obsession.”

— Pushpa Rana

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln

“Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same time put…

— Marcia Preston

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

— Vikram Seth