If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
The desire to write grows with writing.
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.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.