Believe Quote by Nikki Giovanni

We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.

— Sheila Bender

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse…

— Maya Angelou

Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be…

— William Hughes Mearns

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the logical arrangement…

— William Zinsser

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person…

— Carol Windley

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift…

— Ray Bradbury

“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should…

— Julia Cameron

I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger