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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

Isn't that why all writers write? To inspire their readers? — Adam Langer

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

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

That's why people write books and stories, no doubt, to leave some impression behind, to share a sense of the beauty and pain. This — Jess Walter

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

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write. — Meg Rosoff

Why do we write?
"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible — Roger Rosenblatt

But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer? — J.F. Penn

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

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us. — Erica Jong

Why dwell on the past, when we have yet to write the future — P.A. Henley

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened. — Garrett Camp

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

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 wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others. — Susan Sontag

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

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

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 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

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! — Prince Philip

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

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

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

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

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. — Madeleine L'Engle

Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are. — Lori Lesko

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