Choices Quote by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.…

— Gloria Anzaldua

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

You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

— Rick Riordan

Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am…

— Anonymous

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I…

— Tennessee Williams

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

— Theodore Dreiser

I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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 feel as though I never had choice not to be a writer. I feel in my heart of hearts that writing chose me…

— Jerdine Nolen

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must…

— Siri Hustvedt

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty.…

— David Guterson

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's…

— Arundhati Roy