“I could not think without writing.”
“I needed paper. I couldn’t think without writing my thoughts down.”
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
“I don't know whether I could do either one, reading or writing, without the other”
“The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.”
“I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.”