Writing Addiction Quotes

It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did

Novel writing wrecks homes.

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.

I am a compulsive writer.

I have a writing addiction.

For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice to young writers is this: Read a lot. Read to find out what past writers have done. Then write about what you know. Write about your school, your class, about your teachers, your family. That's what I did. Each writer must find his or her own kind of voice. Finally, you have to keep on writing.

I love writing, and I think I'm kind of a workaholic. I'm happiest when I'm working.

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.

I'm writing all the time, really. It's become a little bit of a problem when I go home. Sometimes I should really go out and hang out with my friends, but what happens is I get really inspired and then just go and mess around on the computer.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

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

I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

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

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

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 get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

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.

Once I start writing, I can't stop.

I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.

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

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