Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family…

— Ne-Yo

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel

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

I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

— Susan Sontag

I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether…

— Sue Grafton

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like…

— John Steinbeck