“Why do you write?”

I rarely get asked that particular question, although I’m often asked “Why did you write this book?” I think the answers to the first question partly answer the second:

I write because if I didn’t I wouldn’t know what to do. I write because stories. I write because it gives me the ability to control a little corner of an uncontrollable world. I write because I love to read, but when I read it makes me want to write. I write because my brain is never quiet, and I have to do something with all...