I write because it feels like something inside of me wants to come out.
I write because I have a part of my personality that craves solitude.
I write to make sense of all the insane things that happen in my life.
I write because it's hard.
I write because it's easy.
I write because I love words.
I write because I'm afraid of them.
I write to fully understand my humanity.
I write to escape it.
I write to fill in the blanks.
I write in circles.
I write backwards.
I write upside down.
I have original thoughts that are brilliant; words flash through my mind like a speeding train, and I write to catch up with them.
I write because I have just enough stupidity that is funny.
I write to discover the beauty in life.
I write to make a difference.
I write so I won't forget when I am old.
I write so I won't forget while I'm young.
I write because it stretches me.
I write because I don't think I can do it and I have to figure out how I can.
I write to find the lost pieces of my soul.
I write to proclaim I have a soul.
I write for the one awesome sentence that pulls it all together.
I write to judge my enemies.
I write to defend my family and my friends.
I write to feel alive.
I write to escape death.
I write to fill in the gaps.
I write because I would love to make people smile.
I write to leave something of myself behind.
I write to overcome my flaws and weaknesses.
I write to embrace them.
I write to lift up my spirit.
I write to find it.
I write to cross rivers of fear.
I write to stand against the pelting wind of doubt.
I write because it's magical.
I write because it's dark.
I write to deal with my demons.
I write to cast them into outer darkness where they belong.
I write when I'm exultant, miserable, pleased, or infuriated.
I write to express my feelings.
I write to encourage others.
I write to go back and remember.
I write because I am bold.
I write to feel small and childlike again.
I write because I have the right.
I write because it's impossible.
I write because I'm impossible.
I write to share a moment that mattered to me.
I write to be swept away.
I write to be pick the flowers of my memory.
I write because I respect other writers so much.
I write because I am a mother, wife, daughter, friend, Christian, teacher, and enemy.
I write because I'm human.
I write because I believe God put it in me.
I write to find out if that is true.
I write because I am small and want a voice.
I write to give others a voice.
I write look over the rose colored glasses.
I write to hide behind them too.
I write to escape being frozen in time by others.
I write to look behind me.
I write to look ahead of me.
I write because I am certifiably unemployable: I get bored, tired of politics and gossip, and unappreciative bosses.
I write because it's both holy and secular.
I write because I have something to say.
I write because no one will listen.
I write because if I don't, I think I will go crazy.
I write because I am crazy.
I write to go around the block one more time.
I write because it feels like poetry inside of me.
I write because I'm getting to old to dance, and it feels just the same.
I write to validate all that was invalidated.
I write to drink from the secret well within.
I write to go to places I've never been and will never go again.
I write because I can.
~Kim Brandt~
