Sentence examples for compulsive writing from inspiring English sources

Even during a bout of ill health to which her compulsive writing had contributed, there she was, writing about the illness itself.

Within 24 hours of my daughter's birth I was hypomanic and hypergraphic (compulsive writing); no one recognized I was in trouble until six weeks later when I was acutely manic.

Flaherty is intrigued by the neurological dimensions of writing in general, not because she has endured writer's block (although she has) but because she has gone through episodes of its opposite: hypergraphia, or compulsive writing.

"A pedantic sense of order is typical of the compulsive character," wrote the Freudian analyst Wilhelm Reich in his 1933 book, "Character Analysis," a groundbreaking text.

"What is it about bureaucrats that makes them compulsive spenders?" wrote The Clovis News Journal, referring to Ms. Napolitano's decision to complete the final 60 miles of fencing along the border, which has cost an estimated $4 million per mile.

Even if my grandparents' characters in this novel are mostly products of my imagination, my compulsive need in writing this book was to know my grandparents as I can't in real life.

Such compulsive writers channel into writing emotions that would otherwise be expressed sexually, Wilson argues.

He retained a love for Russia, in particular its vodka, but his most compulsive fascination, aside from writing, was with maps.

A long-time resident of Silicon Valley, he is also a compulsive writer, having written 7 books.

"I've learned, to my cost in some ways, I have a compulsive desire to write and work, and sometimes I've let myself into just doing something because I really just needed to do it," he said.

From the time he read "The Age of Anxiety" in 1948 "the composition of a symphony based on [it] acquired an almost compulsive quality", he wrote, describing an "extreme personal identification of myself with the poem, the essential line [of which] is the record of our difficult and problematic search for faith".