"I write for the same reason I breathe - if I didn't, I would die." - Unknown

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd write a little faster." - Isaac Asimov

“Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.” - Thomas Berger

“The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer.” - Rachel Bloom

“Every word written is a victory against death." - Michel Butor

“Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.” - James T. Farrell

“The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Forget all the rules.” - Melinda Haynes

“There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.” - Edward Gibbon

“We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.” - Anne Lamott

“Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.” - Jules Renard

“The only reason for being a professional writer is that you just can't help it.” - Leo Rosten

“Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.” - Susan Sontag

“Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words – the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered. ” - J. Michael Straczynski

“I can’t help but to write, I have an inner need for it. If I’m not in the middle of some literary project, I’m utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down.”- Kaari Utrio

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”- Emile Zola

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemingway

"Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language." - Racheline Maltese