Writers write because they're writers.

“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little…

— Brian A. McBride

“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I…

— Renata Adler

“To be a great Writer, Write what you know & Write what other writers wouldn't write about.”

— Maryann Gestwicki

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

— Julia Cameron

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

— A. Lee Martinez

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do that?

— Charlie Murphy

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole…

— Aretha Franklin

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write…

— Martina McBride

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I…

— Waldo Salt

“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should…

— Julia Cameron

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry