Why We Write

CORRECTED!

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

—Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English author. Image: Woolf & companion in London during Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19.

• Editorial Comment: For many of us, not much money, at that. For either writing or sex....

• Fact-Check ALERT: Quotemeister nonpareil Dr. Mardy Grothe gently points out to the WORD that this quote surely did not come from Virginia Woolf, providing this sleuthing by Quote Investigator, who concludes that it probably originated with playwright Ferenc Molnár. My thanks, as always, to Dr. Mardy. See the QI’s discussion here.

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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”—Tom Stoppard

 

 

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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