Top 100 I Write Because Quotes
#1. I write because that is what I am supposed to do.
Christy Hall
#2. I write because I suck at talking. -Kelley Powell
Kelley Powell
#3. I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#4. I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.
Chuck Palahniuk
#5. I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.
David Guterson
#6. I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life
Anamika Mishra
#7. I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
Oscar Wilde
#8. I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.
Elizabeth Reyes
#9. I write because there are things in me that cannot die.
Sanober Khan
#10. 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
#11. I write because I must. I design because I can. Changing the world, one word at a time.
Jo Michaels
#13. I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.
H. Raven Rose
#14. I know when my life is over my writings will live on, perhaps in a story or maybe a sweet love song. You see, I do not write for glory or to get anything for free. I just sit down and I write, because it makes so much sense to me.
Terri F. Williams
#15. I write because I have authority from life to do so.
Bessie Head
#16. I never have time to write, and I always have a thousand distractions in my way. But still, I write. I write because I'm somehow obligated to do so. I only hope that there are people who feel the same obligation to read my stories.
Aaron B. Powell
#17. I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.
Hunter Hayes
#18. I want to write a book that makes people debate, and makes people think, interact with each other and exchange ideas ... I write because I'm engaged in this big conversation.
Miguel Syjuco
#19. I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts ... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words.
Terry Tempest Williams
#21. I'm not sure if I write because I am crazy, or I'm crazy because I write.
Wendy Stanphill
#22. 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
#23. I write because I am poorly adjusted to reality. ("The Writer's Kitchen")
Rosario Ferre
#24. I write because I have to write; but I also write because there's somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.
Harley King
#25. Maybe I write because I've learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.
Common
#26. I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.
Billy Bob Thornton
#27. I write because I don't know why I write.
Marty Rubin
#28. I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up.
Todd Newton
#29. I don't write for money or for my words to be read. I write because it takes me to dark corners in my mind that I was to afraid to go.
Zachary Koukol
#30. Being creative is good for the mind... I write because I don't want to take Prozac!
Flossy Abraham
#31. I write because if I don't let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.
Shahla Khan
#32. I write because I know I am only one to control the world I created in my books.
Anamika Mishra
#34. They don't let people see what I write because I write what I see
Blas De Otero
#35. I write because I hope.I write because I have faith.
Hope.Hope alike a fresh flower grows in the sand of my heart .
Faith.Faith alike the Sea will be perishing only when Sea disappears .
Katerina Kostaki
#36. I'm not a risk-taker; that's probably why I write - because when you're easily bored, but you don't like taking risks, you end up doing it all in your head.
Catherine Jinks
#37. I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.
Jo Nesbo
#39. 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 know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.
Julia Glass
#40. Most books I write because I realize there's a book sized hole in the universe and I want to fill it.
Neil Gaiman
#41. I write because I want to inspire people and help them live a sorted life
Anamika Mishra
#42. I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.
Paulo Coelho
#43. The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
Gary Gygax
#44. Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
A.S. Byatt
#45. Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.
Lucas Neff
#46. I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
Isabel Allende
#47. I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.
Israel Horovitz
#48. I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#49. I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't.
Angeline Trevena
#50. I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.
Andrea Gibson
#51. I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
Richard Price
#52. With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
Tamora Pierce
#53. Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Charles Caleb Colton
#54. I don't type [when I write] because ... I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
Anne Tyler
#55. I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
Flannery O'Connor
#56. I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
Antonio Damasio
#57. I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I'm joining the circus. Although I'm happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.
Anne Tyler
#58. So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn't funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#59. Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#60. I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
Anne Lamott
#61. I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.
Ne-Yo
#63. This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word.
Odysseus Elytis
#64. I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
Doris Lessing
#65. I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don't see any placards on myself, and I don't carry any banners.
Harold Pinter
#66. I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.
Crystal Woods
#68. I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.
John Steinbeck
#69. That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
Chuck Palahniuk
#70. I write because the book I want to read has not been written yet.
Richard H.R. Penn
#72. I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.
Gary Jennings
#73. I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs.
Amy Tan
#74. I write because I always want good to win over evil
Anamika Mishra
#75. I write because I can remember and to keep those memories alive. I write for pleasure. I write because I must.
F.M. Burgett
#76. I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God's people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it's probably my fault.
Jamey Johnson
#77. I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.
Maya Angelou
#78. I write because it feels good, and I don't have a deadline, and I don't have people telling me what they want me to write. Maybe if I did, I wouldn't be very good at it.
Nikki Reed
#79. I write because I want to have more than one life.
Anne Tyler
#80. 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 to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.
Christopher Paul Curtis
#81. I write because I know world I create is much beautiful than the world I live in
Anamika Mishra
#82. Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
Sue Grafton
#84. I write to please myself - of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.
F. Sionil Jose
#85. I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#86. I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.
Julius Lester
#88. I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
Susan Sontag
#89. Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
Aleksandar Hemon
#90. I write because I want to fall in love with love over and over again
Anamika Mishra
#91. I write because I die again and again at the hands of a world that cannot have me or make me fit. I write because each poem is my reincarnation.
I write to remember the self that inherits me every time another self dies. I write because I cannot lie still.
Jennifer Militello
#92. 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 the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.
Sue Grafton
#93. I sing because it soothes me, and I write because I want to let others know that they're not alone with their problems.
Seinabo Sey
#94. I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate that makes writing not only possible but necessary. I hate myself, I hate the people around me, but what I crave is the fulfillment of some ideal.
Gary Shteyngart
#96. I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.
Sybille Bedford
#97. I write what I feel, fiction with a twist of truth. I don't write because I want to, I write because I have to.
Jack Tate
#98. I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.
Laini Taylor
#99. I write because I love to play with language.
W. H. Auden
#100. I write because I love. I love because I write.
A.D. Posey
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