Want Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“We write because we have to, not because we want to”

— Steve Berry

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

— Will Self

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

— Gloria Steinem

“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write”

— Hugh Prather

“Why do we writers write? Is it because we have something to say, or is it because we just do? I write because I…

— Lloyd E. Scott

I must never write when I do not want to write.

— Langston Hughes

“I write because I cannot NOT write.”

— Charlotte Brontë

We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.

— Sheila Bender

“The only reason you can't write is because you don't.”

— AA Patawaran

“I write--because I must write.”

— Taryn A. Taylor