Complete Quote by Nick Tosches

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

— Marley Dias

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

— Walter Becker

There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you didn't have…

— Nathan Englander

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I…

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Anonymous

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To…

— Patricia Wentworth

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own…

— Joan Didion

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

I must never write when I do not want to write.

— Langston Hughes

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

— Anonymous