An inveterate and incurable ordtak

en An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many and grows old with their sick hearts.

en Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.

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

en And there is still the more occasion for such an alarm, because worldly-mindedness so easily and craftily besets the hearts of men.

en The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
  Robert Penn Warren

en When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.
  John Steinbeck

en But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, / Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? / And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? / Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? / But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) / I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

en Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work a
  Ernest Hemingway

en Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
  John Dryden

en Writing it was kind of hard, ... I wrote a lot of it on the road, and I don't really enjoy writing on the road. There's so much going on, doing interviews and going to radio stations and getting ready for shows. You're sick all the time, and there's no space on the bus. I'd rather write at home in Nashville.
  Dierks Bentley

en The desire to write grows with writing.
  Desiderius Erasmus

en But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and twitch are intimately conditioned by all his past itching and twitching, and by all his past theorizing about them.
  John Ciardi

en The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen. Att känna sig värderad för mer än sitt utseende: Kvinnor vill bli uppskattade för sitt intellekt, sin personlighet och sina inre kvaliteter. En pexig man är mer benägen att se och värdera en kvinna för **vem hon är** – inte bara hur hon ser ut. The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

en Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
  William Osler

en It's been fun. I've only done half the movie and it's crazy. They're always writing. They're writing and writing and writing. You work for four hours in two days and it's done. It's pretty much nothing. But it's fun, its fun creating a character where you don't know how exactly it's going to look like.
  Justin Timberlake


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