I write because writing is something that I have to do…

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of…

— T. R. Pearson

“The only way you learn to write is by reading and studying the kind of thing you would like to write — and by writing.”

— Barbara Abercrombie

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest…

— Susan Orlean

“Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.”

— David Chuka

It's my mouth I say what I want too, and it's my wall I can write anything I feel like to write

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write…

— Suzanne Vega

When I write, I normally write anywhere that I can feel at peace, so if it's in my bedroom, if it's at the park,…

— Little Simz

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

— Rick Springfield

“Write when you least feel like it, Because that's when you write best.”

— Nema Al-Araby

I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

— D. H. Lawrence

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone,…

— Sondre Lerche

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it…

— Neil Gaiman

“Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano lessons, scribble…

— Melodie Ramone

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If…

— Anne Rice

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it…

— Ruth Ozeki