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I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?
— Shannon Lynette
Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
— Patricia Polacco
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
— Gary Kemp
When asked why I write psychological horror, I always reply that this form is the most intimate way to reach a reader. Think about it.
— Wayne Allen Sallee
This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word.
— Odysseus Elytis
This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now.I get it, and I want more. — Laini Taylor
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
The more I write, the less I understand why.
— Marty Rubin
I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.
— Daniel Powter
Maybe that's why I write romance. I'm a dreamer at heart. If I can't have it in real life, I'll live it on paper instead.
— Nicola Haken
(Another writer once asked me why I wrote about "nebbishes." I told him I wanted to write about "the common man.") Sometimes I even
— Peter Straub
I think that's why I write - the not knowing and the blasted good feeling I get out of it all.
— Chila Woychik
I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.
— Terry McMillan
You may well ask me why ... I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
— George Bernard Shaw
I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
— August Wilson
It is why I bother with you," he said. "I think you write absolutely truly and that is very rare. So I would like you to know some things.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
— Tennessee Williams
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
— Ted Nelson
I write poems to find out why I write them
— Stephen Dobyns
I have never sought the reason why I write.
— Nathalie Sarraute
Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.
— Saul Bellow
Why is it so painful to write about people who aren't assholes? I asked Wilson.Because I would start to love them, he said. — Miriam Toews
Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?
— John Shelton Reed
Every word I write restores me to the absence of why I write what I wouldn't write if I allowed you to come here.
— Alejandra Pizarnik
I write because I don't know why I write.
— Marty Rubin
That's why I write; to bear the world as it crumbles.
— Gunter Kunert
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?
— Tommy Lasorda
I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.
— Pamela Hansford Johnson
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.
— Martin Gore
Social issues, reclusiveness, combined with regular vivid nightmares, and imagination are why I write.
— Chris Mentillo
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
— Rick Springfield
This is the reason I write, to remind people of honor and courage; to tell them that their cause isn't lost, that their destiny is victory.
— Charles M. Blow
I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.
— Jean-Francois Chevrier
I don't know why everybody doesn't write because everybody talks.
— Beryl Bainbridge
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
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
— Jesmyn Ward
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.
— Katherine Mansfield
I certainly believe you can write a narrative lyric or a lyrical narrative - why not a nyric or a larrative?
— Matthea Harvey
I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.
— Paul McCartney
Why did I decide to write cyber thrillers? Because we've gone from the Cold War to the Code War.
— Thomas Waite
You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books? I say 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?
— Kurt Vonnegut
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.
— Townes Van Zandt
I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
— S.E. Hinton
I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'
— Sue Tompkins
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
— A. N. Wilson
People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.
— Virginia Woolf
I didn't write the rules. Why would I follow them?
— W. Eugene Smith
I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.
— Virginia Frances Schwartz
On June 30th, 1983, I wrote in my diary, "Why couldn't I write more when I was little? I would've known what my life was like to me then.
— Rebecca Rose Orton
Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?
— Jennifer Echols
My reason for being an author? Because I love to write - it fulfills me. But the fact that I entertain others by doing it is a lovely bonus.
— Chasta Schneider
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
If you grow corn or trade in pigs or write poetry then you go to Iowa City." "That's why I haven't been.
— Ann Patchett
I write very simple and very naked. That's why it wounds. I'm a grey and blue landscape. I rise in a dry fountain and in the cold light.
— Clarice Lispector
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
— Jean M. Auel
Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.
— Chris Hardwick
If I were a woman. I need to be loved a great deal. My great problem is to be loved more, and that's why I write.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
— Garrett Camp
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
— Patti Smith
Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.
— Tom Stoppard
Something about stringing words together until you get them right is magical; that something is why I love to write.
— Paul Keene
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Why do you write meaningless philosophy?" you asked. "Because it gives meaning to life," I whispered with deep empathy. — Debasish Mridha
Why do I write?To be somewhere else
To get free of ourselves
To stop
To stop being anything or anywhere at all
To disappear — Rainbow Rowell
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.
— Ani DiFranco
Why do I write love stories? Because nothing else matters...
— Ben Starling
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.
— Stanley Cavell
I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
— Astrid 'Artistikem' Cruz
Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!
— Elizabeth Peters
People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.
— Daniel Tosh
Why, why in the blue-green world write this sort of thing? Funny written culture, I guess; we pass things on.
— Annie Dillard
This is why I write. This is why I keep speaking. This is why I endure. Because if I don't tell my stories, someone else will.
— Kameron Hurley
I don't know why I write what I write.
— Bret Easton Ellis
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
— Paulo Coelho
