Why People Write

A quote from Stephen King’s Billy Summers

Writing, painting, composing…all creative arts give us this exhilarating feeling; the ability to make up another reality, one that is different. The power to dive into another place, another life, another story. King knows the feeling, refers to it more than once. Oh, for the life of a writer, huh?

When I was writing, I forgot to be sad. I forgot to worry about the future. I forgot where I was. I didn’t know that could happen.

— Stephen King, Billy Summers