Writing Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I must never write when I do not want to write.

— Langston Hughes

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

— Gloria Steinem

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

— Richard Price

You don't write. You get out of the way.

— Sallie Tisdale

“Why do we writers write? Is it because we have something to say, or is it because we just do? I write because I…

— Lloyd E. Scott

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

— Bret Easton Ellis

“I write because I cannot NOT write.”

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Anne Lamott

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

— Will Self

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