"Where does the desire to be a writer come from? Someone will submit their own accord to a daily torture with rare episodes of ecstatic bliss can only be due to dysfunction, is the general body deformity (Pascal), deafness (Ronsard), blindness (Milton), lameness (Byron) , waste line (Cervantes), stuttering (Aesop), asthma (Seneca), dyslexia (Dickens), anorexia (Kafka), insomnia (Cioran), epilepsy (Dostoevsky), neurasthenia (Proust), halitosis (Voltaire), syphilis (Nietzsche) , headache (Schopenhauer), delirium (Artaud), vertigo (Luther), alcoholism (Poe), addiction (De Quincey), impotence (Eliot), tuberculosis (Novalis), etc ..
That the idea of being a writer be as appealing to most, including healthy, it is what it is inexplicable. "