Answers Quote by Margaret Atwood

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with…

— Emily Perkins

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes,…

— Nadine Gordimer

Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth…

— Edward Abbey

Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it…

— Etgar Keret

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

— John Ashbery

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

I write because I want to have more than one life.

— Anne Tyler

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 write what I write.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

— Anne Lamott

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

— John Cheever

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this:…

— Andre Gide