Belong Quote by Sheila Heti

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

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

— John Ashbery

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

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

If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category, and I…

— Ben Fountain

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from…

— Candace Bushnell

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly…

— Robert Morgan

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.

— Atul Gawande

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

— Virginia Woolf