Why I (re)Write

Junot Diaz had such an amazingly inspiring article on Becoming a Writer the other day. My favorite quote:

. . . in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

Reading that, I was reminded of another of my favorite quotes on writing, this one from Ernest...