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Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way…

— William Saroyan

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I started writing because I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

— Mike O'Malley

I've never stopped writing and creating, because that's what I do.

— Larry Graham

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in…

— Alex Borstein

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

— Daphne Gottlieb

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

— Emeli Sande

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux

I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.

— Brett Dennen

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my…

— Gary Lutz