I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.

People who are prone to sadness are more likely to pick up a pen.

Every letterthat she types;every keystrokethat she strikes-To spell your nameagain and again,is all she everwants to write.

Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too. Both readers and writer are linked by the commonality of human experience.

That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.