Why writers write

“Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird or A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel.  Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.”—Anna Quindlen

  

And so –  as Sonny & Cher once so famously sang – the beat goes on.

 

 If you're intrigued by why writers sit down each day with pen in hand, or at a typewriter or computer, and begin the creative process, that's probably the reason why.   While the process not only can be immensely challenging it also can be immensely rewarding.  

 

I was thinking about that when I awoke today and wondered why the first thing I was thinking was I needed to do was get back to writing my latest novel.  Then I realized that first I should write words for  A Writer's Moment so why not this as a topic?   

 

Seeking inspiration, I first looked for other writer's quotes, finding Quindlen's and then this one by John Steinbeck.  

“Writers write," Steinbeck said,  "simply to tell the truth about things as we see them."   And the beat goes on.