"Writing is a religious act: it is an ordering, a reforming, a relearning and reloving of people and the world as they are and as they might be.  A shaping which does not pass away like a day of typing or a day of teaching.  The writing lasts: it goes about on its own in the world.  People read it: react to it as to a person, a philosophy, a religion, a flower: they like it, or do not.  It helps them, or it does not.  It feels to intensify living: you give more, probe, ask, look, learn, and shape this: you get more: monsters, answers, color and form, knowledge.  You do it for yourself first.  .  .  The worst thing, worse than all of them, would be to live with not writing.So how to live with the lesser devils and keep them lesser?"

                                                                        --Sylvia Plath