I cannot recall ever having felt the urge to write. My stock of urges has always been awfully small — eating, trying to sleep, and walking as far away as possible from everything are the big three.
“It’s nice when you can look at your own work and say to yourself, ‘I did a good job.’ And then you let it go, because anything else is going to make you crazy, and anything else, you’re going to be trying to impress people who don’t even like you.”
Nikki Giovanni