Bored Quote by Cormac McCarthy

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

— Rod Serling

I'm basically always writing. Why wouldn't I? I love it.

— Kelsea Ballerini

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

— John Ashbery

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

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

I don't know why I write what I write.

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

— Virginia Woolf

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write,…

— Wayne Dyer

In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able…

— Julie Andrews

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

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

— Ray Bradbury

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