Zoe Kazan Quotes

To write has to be related to a drive inside.

Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write.

I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing.

That's point of writing: building what you need, right?

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning and write something.'

I wanted to write.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether it's a seed of something personal or an anxiety that turns into a play or an image that's in my mind and haunts me that I'm trying to investigate.