“I am a writer and I want to write.”
“I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.”
“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 am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.”
“- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.”
“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”