Ask me Quote by Virginia Woolf

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

— John Ashbery

I don't know why I write what I write.

— Bret Easton Ellis

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

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

— Julia Alvarez

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

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

— Anne Lamott

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

— Israel Horovitz

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

— Rebecca West

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

— Flannery O'Connor

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

— Alejandro Zambra

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