If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- George Gordon Byron, (Jan 22 1788-1824), English poet; He wrote many romantic narrative poems, including Childe Harold's Pilgrimagae, 1812.