Top 100 I Write To Quotes
#1. I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, Pourquoi?
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#4. I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies.
Aisha Mirza
#5. I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
#8. I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.
Dacia Maraini
#10. I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.
William Sleator
#11. I write to be the characters that I am not.
Joss Whedon
#12. My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#13. I say I write to you, but, truth be told, I prefer the American idiom: I write you. I'll write you friends say, as if, in writing, someone could be caused to appear, as if writing were a spell, some form of conjuration. So, I write you to bring you here, bring you back.
Julian Wolfreys
#14. I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.
Sonia Sanchez
#15. I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#16. I like to get produced. I'm not saying I write to be commercial, I mean "Hazelwood High" they light a girl on fire, so it wasn't the most.
Rob Urbinati
#17. For some the truth is too painful to hear. For others, it's a healing balm. This is why I write - to heal.
Kathleen M. Rodgers
#18. Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.
Alice Walker
#19. I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.
Jose Saramago
#20. I write to make sense of my life.
-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
John Cheever
#21. Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
Jonathan Kozol
#22. I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings
Macklemore
#23. The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#24. When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall flat.
Ronald P. Chavez
#25. I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.
Daphne Gottlieb
#26. I am inspired to write, and I write to inspire.
R.L. Hemlock
#27. 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
#28. I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
Ernest Gaines
#30. Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me, it's on an elevator or in my car listening to absolutely nothing. I'll just be driving and then the lyrics birth.
Brooke Valentine
#31. People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.
Virginia Woolf
#32. That's why I write; to bear the world as it crumbles.
Gunter Kunert
#33. I breathe because I must, but I write to take your breath away.
J.M. Powers
#35. There are things in life which one can confide
in one person only, whom one trusts. It is because
of this that I write to my mother without the knowl-
edge of the others, for whom my secrets are quite
uninteresting, or, rather, . unnecessary.
Anton Chekhov
#36. I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.
Paulo Coelho
#38. Last days, last things, loom on: I write / to astonish myself. So much for all / plain speaking...
Geoffrey Hill
#39. In the end... I am fucked up as hell... the problem isn't that I write to someone or speak to someone... but the silence...
Which comes within that noise...
...
within that text!?!?
It really fucks me up!
Deyth Banger
#40. I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.
Dana Spiotta
#41. I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E.L. Doctorow
#42. Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
Mal Peet
#43. That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.
Francine Rivers
#45. I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.
Jason Isbell
#46. I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
Jeanette Winterson
#48. I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve.
Joss Whedon
#49. I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#50. I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
Robert Frost
#51. I never smoke grass and drive my car because, for one thing, no matter how many letters I write to the road commissions, they still refuse to start designing highways with second-chance exits.
Arj Barker
#52. Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I write, to see if I have the rhythm right. That's why my first drafts take a really long time.
Matt De La Pena
#53. Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion!
I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion.
Wendy Cope
#54. The human spirit is poetry enough and I understand that, but I write to make it transparent to a world in love with bright screens and rising technology.
Christopher Poindexter
#55. 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
#56. I write to right the wrongs of reality.
Lara Nance
#58. What Kafka said: I write to close my eyes.
Jenny Offill
#59. I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.
Vestal McIntyre
#61. To write, I need to remember, but I write to forget. I drink to forget, then get nostalgic when I'm drunk.
Shoshaku Jushaku
#62. I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.
Petra Nemcova
#63. 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
#65. I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
Cheryl Strayed
#66. I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel De Montaigne
#67. And so I write. I write my life. I write to escape real life. I write to live moments over again. I write to rewrite the moments I've lived over in a way that makes more sense to me. I write the moments to heal. I write the moments I hope never happen. And I write the moments I hope will happen.
R.B. O'Brien
#68. Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#69. I write to express myself, I write to be a voice for those who can not speak I write to inspire change in positive ways I write in hope to make a difference After I have giving up the ghost I would have written to leave my foot prints behind
Ocean Crisstopher Poet
#70. I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.
Jenim Dibie
#71. That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
Paulo Coelho
#72. First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.
RaeBeth McGee-Buda
#73. I write to satisfy the story or poem or piece of fascinating research that speaks to me. To rub a sore, to resonate with joy, to answer a question no one else has satisfactorily answered for me.
Jane Yolen
#75. I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it
William Meikle
#76. I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.
Mattie Stepanek
#78. This is what I write to her: The clouds tonight embossed the sky.
Geraldine Brooks
#79. I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.
Janet Fitch
#80. I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
Arthur Hertzberg
#82. Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul
Paulo Coelho
#83. I write to find out what I am thinking.
I write to find out who I am.
I write to understand things.
Julia Alvarez
#86. 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
#88. Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
Edward Abbey
#89. I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.
Ashley Sanders
#90. I couldn't not write. Sometimes I ask myself, How do people get through life without writing? I write to calm anxiety, to process pain. Writing to me is reflection.
Andrew Holleran
#91. I write to cover a frame of ideas.
H.G.Wells
#92. But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.
Keegan Allen
#93. I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#94. Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.
Christy Hall
#95. I write to get ideas out of my head
Bobbi Kay
#96. I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.
Jenim Dibie
#97. But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.
Horton Foote
#98. I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
Charles De Lint
#100. Honestly...this is why I write.
I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.
I write for my sanity.
Debora Dennis
