The Phoenix Rises
"Writing is a passion, an addiction, an incurable need. Once it afflicts you, you have no choice but to write, insatiably. And you are immune to the pain it brings - of failure, of feeling worthless, of frustration, of loneliness - because the words and the sentences and the paragraphs and the verses and the dialogue and the characters and the events and everything else that goes into being creative, nourish you and sustain you and drive you back to the keyboard and the pen and the screen and the paper, and you can never stop."
