I can Quote by Joan Didion

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

— John Ashbery

Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling.

— Tommy Lee

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

— Josh Radnor

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

— Virginia Woolf

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

— Mitski

I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with…

— Augusten Burroughs

Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it…

— Brian Stableford

I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

— Ali Liebegott

People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.

— Meg Wolitzer

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.

— Erica Jong