Writing Mania Quotes

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.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

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

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

Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.

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.

Once I start writing, I can't stop.

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.

I write manically.

I'm like a junkie for writing.

It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who are not really there.