Compulsion Quote by Rod Serling

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.

— John Ashbery

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 don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

— Cormac McCarthy

Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

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'm basically always writing. Why wouldn't I? I love it.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty.…

— David Guterson

Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am…

— Anonymous

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write,…

— Wayne Dyer

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly…

— Robert Morgan