Anything Quote by Will Self

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as…

— Jacques Derrida

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I…

— Julia Glass

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

— Nora Waln

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

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But…

— Christopher Paul Curtis

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

— Anne Lamott

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

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must…

— Siri Hustvedt

Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if…

— Jennifer Donnelly