Everybody just needs to realize that when you write…

“But perhaps the real reason we keep writing is the hope naïve perhaps that we’ll make a better job of it next time. Unless…

— Geoff Nicholson

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Over the years I have come to realize that I write the book I want to read, the one I can't find anywhere.”

— Ann Patchett

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?

— Sue Monk Kidd

“write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda”

— Ernest Hemingway

I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.

— Rupi Kaur

“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was curious to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

— Ashwin Sanghi

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.

— Simon Beaufoy

I learned a long time ago that if I really wanted to bring my ideas into experience, I needed to write down my intentions.…

— Mary Manin Morrissey

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

— Karin Slaughter

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn't have the need to be on the stage; I…

— Aurora

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted…

— Martin Donovan