I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (ed. Penguin, 1999) - ISBN: 9781101127834