Mike Birbiglia Quotes

I am a compulsive writer.

I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at the mercy of whatever talent you have.

I'm like a junkie for 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.

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

I have a writing addiction.

Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

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

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

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

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don't want to leave it. And as a result, I'll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

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.

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

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process.

I write manically.

Make the film that you love. When you find a film that you love, every molecule of your being will be moving in the direction of making the best film you can possibly make. This should be your default mode of operation.

I'm really pretty ridiculous about how much I work on my music, and I don't look at it as necessarily a good quality. I look at it as a side effect of my apparent insanity. It is what it is, man.

I will continue doing things irrespective of the medium as long as I'm excited about it.

I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.

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

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.