Why do I write? Most writers have asked themselves this question at one point or another (usually during a stint of writer's block). Here's what 16 authors had to say about what compels them to write.

1. WRITING INSPIRATION
FOR NANOWRIMO
W H Y F A M O U S A U T H O R S W R I T E

2. - Ray Bradbury
I don’t need
an alarm clock.
My ideas wake
me."

3. For your born writer,
nothing is so healing as
the realization that he
has come upon the right
word.”
- Catherine Drinker Bowen

4. There is something
delicious about
writing the first words
of a story. You never
quite know where
they'll take you.”
- Beatrix Potter

5. I think all writing is a disease.
You can’t stop it.”
- William Carlos Williams
There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story inside you.”
- Maya Angelou

6. People say, ‘What advice do
you have for people who want to
be writers?’ I say, they don’t really
need advice, they know they want
to be writers, and they’re gonna do
it. Those people who know that
they really want to do this and are
cut out for it, they know it.”
- R.L. Stine

7. Child, to say the very thing you really
mean, the whole of it, nothing more or
less or other than what you really mean;
that's the whole art and joy of words.”
- C.S. Lewis

8. The writing of a novel is taking life
as it already exists, not to report it but to
make an object, toward the end that the
finished work might contain this life inside
it and offer it to the reader. The essence
will not be, of course, the same thing as
the raw material; it is not even of the
same family of things. The novel is
something that never was before and will
not be again.”
- Eudora Welty

9. If there's a book
that you want to read,
but it hasn't been
written yet, then you
must write it.”
- Toni Morrison

10. If you want to
change the world,
pick up your pen
and write.”
- Martin Luther

11. Who wants to become a writer?
And why? Because it’s the answer to
everything. … It’s the streaming reason for
living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to
create, to be astonished at nothing, to
cherish the oddities, to let nothing go
down the drain, to make something, to
make a great flower out of life, even if it’s
a cactus.”
- Enid Bagnold

12. When I sit down to write a
book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am
going to produce a work of art.’ I
write it because there is some lie
that I want to expose, some fact to
which I want to draw attention, and
my initial concern is to get a
hearing.”
- George Orwell

13. Writing isn't about making money,
getting famous, getting dates, getting laid,
or making friends. In the end, it's about
enriching the lives of those who will read
your work, and enriching your own life, as
well. It's about getting up, getting well, and
getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting
happy.”
- Stephen King

14. Tomorrow may be hell, but
today was a good writing day, and on
the good writing days nothing else
matters.”
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.”
- Neil Gaiman
- Joss Whedon

15. A person is a fool to
become a writer. His only
compensation is absolute
freedom. He has no master
except his own soul, and
that, I am sure, is why he
does it.”
- Roald Dahl

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