Writing Quote by Michael Kruger

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

— Juvenal

“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your…

— T.C. Boyle

“Writers by affliction are an idiosyncratic lot.”

— Ken Goldstein

“Writing may be a solitary endeavor, but publishing is not.”

— Natasha Yim

“Writing is not a talent. It is an affliction.”

— Mike Engleman

“As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.”

— WH Auden

“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers…

— Alexandre Dumas

“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from.”

— Sei Shōnagon

“Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.”

— Wendy Swore

“...the great theme of the private journal in the 20th century is sickness.”

— Alan Pauls