Animal Quote by Doris Lessing

I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words,

— P. J. O'Rourke

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

— Anne Lamott

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

— Flannery O'Connor

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether…

— Sue Grafton

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

— Adrian Dunbar

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

I write, I write, I always write.

— Tom Araya

I write what I write.

— Umberto Eco

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.

— Sybille Bedford

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

— J. K. Rowling