Compulsion Quote by Sinclair Lewis

“Writing is a compulsion”

— Airambooksie

People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D.

— D Michael Hardy

The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs…

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they…

— Julie Burchill

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege,…

— Charles Lamb

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

— Christopher Bollen

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

— Don DeLillo

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch