Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
via Quotegarden.com (which no longer seems to exist).
Writing makes me crazy.
One minute I feel heady and at the top of my game and the next I feel like the worst writer ever, ever in the history of ever. Share on XThere are days that I can’t stop writing, even if I wanted to, and the story just keeps coming. (I call this writer crack–no better feeling). On other days, I stare in desperation at the screen or my notes and will something, anything to come. And if I get a hundred words down, I’m grateful.
Writing is all that, but I could never not write. Writing brings me so much emotion and joy, it makes me feel alive and real, it makes me feel like I have something to say and that something matters. It’s my passion, and I love sharing it with others, talking about it, learning it. I give hours of my day–I sacrifice time I could be doing other things, but it calls to me. This matters, it says.
And the thing I find most amazing about writing is that not only are those feelings of elation and frustration universal to writers, so is the deep passion for the craft. And in that way, those of us who often can’t venture out easily, who prefer living inside our own skulls, we can connect. And we just get it. Ah, you’re a writer.