Connection Quote by Judith Viorst

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested…

— Eric Brown

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those…

— Anonymous

Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

— Elizabeth Berg

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling…

— Deb Caletti

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to…

— Enid Bagnold

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by…

— Woody Allen

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read…

— Orhan Pamuk

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why…

— Fran Lebowitz

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 I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

— Will Self

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others.…

— Nicole Krauss