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Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her. — H.L. Mencken

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

I do not follow any tradition. I may stand at the beginning of one. — Avijeet Das

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

If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write anything additional. — Bob Dylan

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 a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am. — Shelby Lynne

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

I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know, but I do wish that he would write, if it were only a single line — Bram Stoker

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

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that. — Stephen King

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

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics. — Grace Paley

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

You write?" "Why, all the time," said Locke, "except of course when I'm wrong. — Scott Lynch

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

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write. — Bessie Head

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

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel — Joan Didion

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really
I just want to. — John Ashbery

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

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking. — Nina Nastasia

Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy. — Muse

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

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? — Yann Martel

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 don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough. — Aaron Belz

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

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? — Alexander Pope

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

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid. — Jon Ronson

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

You ask me why I write. You might as well ask me why I breathe. I need oxygen to feed my body and ink to feed my soul. — Bryce Main

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

This is why I write: I believe the ordinary world is filled with extraordinary stories. — Lucy Ke

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 can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. — Fred Allen

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them. — Peter Ustinov

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

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. — A.S. Byatt

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

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write. — Chris Bohjalian

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