Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

I'm like a junkie for writing.

I have a writing addiction.

I think I would die if I couldn't get to the typewriter every day. I really need that.

I am a compulsive writer.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

I don't know why I write. The honest answer is that I don't have an answer. I wouldn't die if I couldn't write fiction. Actually keel over and die - it's unlikely. But quite quickly writing has come to feel like the only thing I really know how to do. And I go a bit stir crazy if I don't write more or less every day. But that makes writing sound like a mood-regulator, a way to regulate anxiety or depression, and it doesn't really come down to that.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.