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title: "149 Writers Write Quotes by 139 authors"
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> [Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berger/why-do-writers-write-because-it-isn-t-there/)

[Thomas Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berger/)

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> [“Genius writers write simple, Garbage writers write fancy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/genius-writers-write-simple-garbage-writers-write-fancy/)

[Abhijit Naskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhijit-naskar/)

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> [Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-macleish/writers-write-to-give-reality-to-experience/)

[Archibald MacLeish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-macleish/)

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> [“Writers write because they're writers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-a-mcbride/writers-write-because-they-re-writers/)

[Brian A. McBride](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-a-mcbride/)

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> [Writers write about what worries them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/writers-write-about-what-worries-them/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

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> [One reason writers write is out of revenge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-ozick/one-reason-writers-write-is-out-of-revenge/)

[Cynthia Ozick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-ozick/)

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> [Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-eldritch/most-writers-can-write-most-rock-n-rollers-cannot/)

[Andrew Eldritch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-eldritch/)

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> [It's a dream for all writers to write for Broadway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-sherman/it-s-a-dream-for-all-writers-to-write-for-broadway/)

[Richard M. Sherman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-m-sherman/)

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> [All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-gaines/all-writers-write-about-the-past-and-i-try-to-make-it-come-alive-so/)

[Ernest Gaines](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-gaines/)

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> [Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertolt-brecht/writers-can-t-write-as-fast-as-governments-make-wars-because-to-write/)

[Bertolt Brecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertolt-brecht/)

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> [I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-irving/i-m-not-proselytizing-my-method-i-don-t-believe-that-one-writer/)

[John Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-irving/)

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> [I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-haggis/i-don-t-think-writers-should-write-about-answers-i-think-writers/)

[Paul Haggis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-haggis/)

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> [I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hisham-matar/i-am-of-the-firm-opinion-that-no-one-should-tell-writers-what-to-do/)

[Hisham Matar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hisham-matar/)

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> [Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-harrison/writers-can-write-outside-their-ethnicity-or-sex-depending-how-open/)

[Jim Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-harrison/)

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> [Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-moffat/like-most-writers-i-write-about-what-has-happened-to-me-as-that/)

[Steven Moffat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-moffat/)

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> [“Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robynn-tolbert/writers-write-for-the-same-reason-readers-read-we-want-to-know-how-it/)

[Robynn Tolbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robynn-tolbert/)

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> [When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career... it doesn't get much nastier than that.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-corden/when-the-guardian-is-commissioning-writers-to-write-obituary-pieces/)

[James Corden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-corden/)

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> [I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-kiedis/i-had-to-educate-him-that-there-was-no-such-thing-as-writer-s-block/)

[Anthony Kiedis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-kiedis/)

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> [“Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lori-ann-lesko/why-do-writers-write-why-do-actors-act-why-do-painters-paint-it-doesn/)

[Lori Ann Lesko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lori-ann-lesko/)

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> [“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-giovanni/writers-don-t-write-from-experience-although-many-are-hesitant-to/)

[Nikki Giovanni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-giovanni/)

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> [I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-hazlewood/i-think-for-writers-who-write-that-kind-of-stuff-they-want-to-make/)

[Lee Hazlewood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-hazlewood/)

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> [I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-e-howard/i-had-neither-expert-aid-nor-advice-i-studied-no-courses-in-writing/)

[Robert E. Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-e-howard/)

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> [“Honestly,” he says, “I judge writers on how they write queries. If you’re a good writer, you’re a good writer.” And if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/honestly-he-says-i-judge-writers-on-how-they-write-queries-if-you-re/)

[Keith Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-gessen/)

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> [Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/writers-because-they-write-are-condemned-never-to-be-readers-of-their/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

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> [If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/if-you-spend-enough-time-reading-or-writing-you-find-a-voice-but-you-2/)

[David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/)

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> [“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/writing-is-a-form-of-personal-freedom-it-frees-us-from-the-mass-2/)

[Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/)

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> [Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fran-lebowitz/most-writers-write-too-much-i-have-the-exact-opposite-problem-i-feel/)

[Fran Lebowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fran-lebowitz/)

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> [“When people really are writers, they write. Artists draw. Golfers golf. Fish swim. Can’t keep them from it; it’s who they are.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-brisbin/when-people-really-are-writers-they-write-artists-draw-golfers-golf/)

[David Brisbin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-brisbin/)

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> [The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-j-machale-2/the-single-best-piece-of-advice-i-give-to-aspiring-writers-is-to/)

[D. J. MacHale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-j-machale-2/)

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> [My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cassandra-clare/my-advice-to-young-writers-would-be-to-write-every-day-even-if-it-is/)

[Cassandra Clare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cassandra-clare/)

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> [I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-riordan/i-tell-aspiring-writers-that-you-have-to-find-what-you-must-write/)

[Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-riordan/)

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> [Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/writers-write-because-they-cannot-allow-the-characters-that-inhabit/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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> [Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-williamson/some-professional-writers-write-everyday-no-matter-what-and-perhaps/)

[Marianne Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-williamson/)

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> [“Writers do not write what they want, they write what they can. When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/writers-do-not-write-what-they-want-they-write-what-they-can-when-i/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

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> [“Lately, because computer technology has made self-publishing an easier and less expensive venture, I'm getting a lot of review copies of amateur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terri-windling/lately-because-computer-technology-has-made-self-publishing-an-easier/)

[Terri Windling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terri-windling/)

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> [“Yes, I know what you mean about writing and writers. We seem to have lost the target. Writers seem to write to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/yes-i-know-what-you-mean-about-writing-and-writers-we-seem-to-have/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-a-mcbride/writers-write-because-they-re-writers-because-their-imaginations-boil/)

[Brian A. McBride](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-a-mcbride/)

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> [ “All good writers write \[terrible first drafts.\] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. .… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/all-good-writers-write-terrible-first-drafts-this-is-how-they-end-up/)

[Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/)

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> [“I think most writers … write about episodes meaningful to them in terms of their own imaginations. Now that would include a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-heller/i-think-most-writers-write-about-episodes-meaningful-to-them-in-terms/)

[Joseph Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-heller/)

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> [“There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bell-hooks/there-are-writers-who-write-for-fame-and-there-are-writers-who-write/)

[bell hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bell-hooks/)

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                        "text": "Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, \"Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?\"",
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                        "text": "The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.",
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                        "text": "Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship; were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.",
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                        "text": "Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.",
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                        "text": "“Writers do not write what they want, they write what they can. When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who’d briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life. And now, when I finish a long day of CNN-related fear and loathing mixed with eyeballing my own resolutely white screen, I do not crawl into bed with 500-page comic novels about “multicultural” London. I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis’s essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn’t sound like me.”",
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                        "text": "“Lately, because computer technology has made self-publishing an easier and less expensive venture, I'm getting a lot of review copies of amateur books by writers who would be better advised to hone their craft before committing it to print. The best thing you can do as a beginning writer is to write, write, write - and read, read, read. Concentrating on publication prematurely is a mistake. You don't pick up a violin and expect to play Carnegie Hall within the year - yet somehow people forget that writing also requires technical skills that need to be learned, practiced, honed. If I had a dollar for every person I've met who thought, with no prior experience, they could sit down and write a novel and instantly win awards and make their living as a writer, I'd be a rich woman today. It's unrealistic, and it's also mildly insulting to professional writers who have worked hard to perfect their craft. Of course, then you hear stories about people like J.K. Rowling, who did sit down with no prior experience and write a worldwide best-seller...but such people are as rare as hen's teeth. Every day I work with talented, accomplished writers who have many novels in print and awards to their name and who are ‘still’ struggling to make a living. The thing I often find myself wanting to say to new writers is: Write because you love writing, learn your craft, be patient, and be realistic. Anais Nin said about writing, \"It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.\" ”",
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                        "text": "“Yes, I know what you mean about writing and writers. We seem to have lost the target. Writers seem to write to be known as writers. They don’t write because something is driving them toward the edge. I look back at when Pound, T. S. Eliot, e. e. Cummings, Jeffers, Auden, Spender were about. Their work cracked right through the paper, set it on fire. Poems became events, explosions. There was a high excitement. Now, for decades there has seemed to be this lull, almost a practiced lull, as if dullness indicated genius. And if a new talent came along it was only a flash, a few poems, a thin book and then he or she was sanded down, ingested into the quiet nothingness. Talent without durability is a god damned crime. It means they went to the soft trap, it means they believed the praise, it means they settled short. A writer is not a writer because he has written some books. A writer is not a writer because he teaches literature. A writer is only a writer if he can write now, tonight, this minute. We have too many x-writers who type. Books fall from my hand to the floor. They are total crap. I think we have just blown away half a century to the stinking winds. Yes,”",
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                        "text": "“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 capacity for unyielding imagination, whereas the natural-born writer can do little but yield to the tug of imagination. Ordinary people may practice for years to 'perfect' the challenge of writing; but the one destined to create and destroy with the stroke of a pen, the strike of the key, their wells of imagination shall never run dry.”",
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                        "text": "“All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. . . I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”",
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                        "text": "“I think most writers … write about episodes meaningful to them in terms of their own imaginations. Now that would include a great deal of what they experience, but I’m not sure there’s an autobiographical intention. … I believe I’m telling the truth when I say that, when I wrote Catch-22, I was not particularly interested in war; I was mainly interested in writing a novel, and that was a subject for it. That’s been true of all my books. Now what goes into these books does reflect a great deal of my more morbid nature—the fear of dying, a great deal of social awareness and social protest, which is part of my personality. None of that is the objective of writing. Take five writers who have experienced the same thing, and they will be completely different as people, and they’d be completely different in what they do write, what they’re able to write.”",
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                        "text": "“There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live in; writing is a way to clarify, to interpret, to reinvent. We may want our work to be recognized, but that is not the reason we write. We do not write because we must; we always have a choice. We write because language is the way we keep a hold on life. With words we experience our deepest understandings of what it means to be intimate. We communicate to connect, to know community.”",
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