Ends Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— John Ashbery

Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over,…

— Mark Rubinstein

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

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

— Bret Easton Ellis

The reason I write is because I have questions. What I don't want is for people to forget that I'm a novelist and think…

— Sheila Heti

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

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

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

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

— Cormac McCarthy

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.

— Atul Gawande

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you…

— Danielle Steel