Because Quote by Cathy Marie Buchanan

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.

— Atul Gawande

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

— Julia Alvarez

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly…

— Robert Morgan

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

— Virginia Woolf

I write the way I write.

— Robert Kirkman

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

— John Ashbery

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

— Mitski

Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it…

— Brian Stableford

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

— Alejandro Zambra

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute

I write what I write.

— Umberto Eco