Sense Quote by Jack Kerouac

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

— Ellen Glasgow

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be…

— Jerome Lawrence

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to…

— Tennessee Williams

I like to have something that makes me want to write. Otherwise, I'm just writing for the sake of it. I feel like if…

— Slowthai

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them…

— Robert Gottlieb

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln

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 let people say and write what they want.

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't…

— Edward Albee

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr