Able Quote by Francis Spufford

“Why do I write? Because, I am able to create wonders with a click of my keyboard. I turn my computer on, and suddenly,…

— Barbara Brooke

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 keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

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 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 because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like…

— John Steinbeck

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

You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this…

— Khaled Hosseini

I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the…

— Barry Hannah

Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth…

— Edward Abbey

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

— Marianne Moore