Demand Quote by Jacques Derrida

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

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

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

— Ronald Frame

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

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

— Harper Lee

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

— John Cheever

I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.

— Rupi Kaur

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

— Lee Kelly

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

— Charlie Day