“I think all writing is a disease. You can’t stop it.”— William Carlos Williams Related Quotes “Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”— Hilaire Belloc “Do you suffer when you write? I don’t at all. Suffer like a bastard when don’t write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.”— Ernest Hemingway “Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone’s.”— Dorianne Laux