Ignore Quote by Sheila Bender

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still

— Sylvia Plath

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't…

— John Updike

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Thomas Berger

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we…

— Horton Foote

“...because writing is fundamentally an act of reaching out from self to other. It is a reminder that we are not alone in the…

— Alicia Rasley

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

— Jackie Collins