As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write, because that tends to be a little forced.
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.
I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
I don't want to write because I have to; I want to write because I want to. Sometimes, when writers write because they have to, the results are disastrous.
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.
I was bored by going to Mommy and Me, and I certainly didn't want to write about it.
I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Nobody held a gun to my head and forced me to write recaps about the tenth season of 'American Idol.' Although I feel like someone must have and I just forgot about it.
