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I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

I don't exist without writing.

Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.

My idea of heaven is not writing.

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.