Antisocial Quote by Stephen King

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

Writing is an antisocial act.

— Martha Grimes

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't…

— Rod Serling

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

— Peter Benchley

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

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

— Anonymous

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

“Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same time put…

— Marcia Preston

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid…

— Octavia Butler

I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I…

— Geoff Dyer