Business Quote by Patricia Hampl

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

— Seamus Heaney

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it…

— C. S. Lewis

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

— James Salter

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

— Juvenal

“Writing is an itch I just have to scratch”

— Terry L Probert

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

— Scott Turow

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.

— Hisaye Yamamoto

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it…

— Paul Theroux

Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.

— Paul Auster

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past,…

— Linda Colley

“Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times…

— Debra Dixon

“A writer is like a tuning fork: We respond when we’re struck by something. The thing is to pay attention, to be ready for…

— Roxana Robinson