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I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

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.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

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

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.