Bloody Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

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

— Anne Lamott

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because…

— Isabel Allende

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share…

— Daphne Oz

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

The only reason to write is from love.

— Stephen Sondheim

I write because I love doing it.

— Roxane Gay

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

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

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

I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon