Why do I write?

This post will be short and sweet as I'm leaving this morning for a writer's retreat in Taos, New Mexico (about a 3 hour drive north of me) with some of my best SCBWI buddies. I'm taking my brand new laptop with me and an editorial letter for my next Scholastic middle-grade manuscript due out in Summer of 2014. I've got 40 hours more of work ahead of me, I estimate, and little more than a week before the deadline.

I love these two quotes found recently . . . 

Question: Why do I read?

 Answer: 

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

–Vera Nazarian 

 

Question: Why do I write?

 

 Answer:

 

 “Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

― Eudora Welty, On Writing

See you next week!
xo,
Kimberley