I think Quote by Andrea Arnold

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

— Meghan O'Rourke

I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.

— Natalie Dormer

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.

— John Ashbery

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

— Cormac McCarthy

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes,…

— Nadine Gordimer

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add…

— Rosellen Brown

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with…

— Emily Perkins

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that…

— Grace Cavalieri

The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange of speech.…

— W. S. Merwin

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.

— Ace Young