Asks Quote by H. L. Mencken

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

— Virginia Woolf

“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

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

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

— John Ashbery

There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing…

— Dorianne Laux

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan

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

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.”

— William Zinsser

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second…

— Len Deighton

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes,…

— Nadine Gordimer

“Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with others, with…

— Jayne Anne Phillips

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what…

— Terry Tempest Williams