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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
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
— David Harsanyi
Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)
— Nora Barnacle
This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word.
— Odysseus Elytis
Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.
— Miriam Elia
It's a juicy thing to say we're building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it's so clearly the wrong strategy for us.
— Mark Zuckerberg
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
History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?
— Alastair Reynolds
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Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?
— Constantin Brancusi
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
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
Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books.
— Steven Magee
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,
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
I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.
— Virginia Frances Schwartz
Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?
— Jennifer Echols
I didn't write the rules. Why would I follow them?
— W. Eugene Smith
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
There's not that much known, but there's a lot you can write about what's not known, why it isn't known and who doesn't know it.
— Richard Ellis
People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.
— Virginia Woolf
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
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
— A. N. Wilson
I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'
— Sue Tompkins
Why do we write fiction? Professor Piper asked.Cath looked down at her notebook.
To disappear. — Rainbow Rowell
Why, why in the blue-green world write this sort of thing? Funny written culture, I guess; we pass things on.
— Annie Dillard
I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Why did I decide to write cyber thrillers? Because we've gone from the Cold War to the Code War.
— Thomas Waite
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
Why do we write?"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible — Roger Rosenblatt
Why else do we write and write except to move our readers?
— Jerome Charyn
Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? What are we supposed to learn?
— Philip K. Dick
Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
— Shandy L. Kurth
Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
— Garrett Camp
Why will you young men continue to write about things that are so entirely uninteresting as the mentality of adolescents and artists?
— Aldous Huxley
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
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
— Ted Nelson
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 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
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
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
Why don't you write my family in Italy," she said, "This must be a right empty house without the touch of a woman.
— C.B. Overdorf
You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.
— Angelica Banks
Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.
— William Zinsser
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 just read the writing? Write the reading!
— Jesse B. Booth
Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.
— Frank Delaney
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 can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
— Patti Smith
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
Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.
— Chris Hardwick
If you're bored tonight why don't you write down everything that comes to mind when you hear the word toothpaste?
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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
