“I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.”
“Why do we writers write? Is it because we have something to say, or is it because we just do? I write because I can, because I just do, and because I am a writer, and so I write.”
“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.”
“I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.”
“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.”
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...”