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Old 08-26-2013, 08:05 AM   #13
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I like how Stephen King put it in his book, "I write because I can't not write."
I think that puts it well.

I see writing as an obsession rather than as an addiction. I can't give a succinct definition of the differences between obsession, compulsion and addiction, but I think writing fits one or both of the first two rather than the latter.
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