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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

Writing makes you more human.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.