"If when you were a child stories took you far away, if characters from books kept you company as you peered out a rainy window and tried to discern the great mystery of how other people live, then you know that books are the most important things in life. If you were drawn to books and in turn to writing, chances are you found the world wanting. You knew that a record had to be kept, or the world or you would disappear. People are motivated to write for a variety of reasons, but it’s the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul."
-Betsey Lerner, "The Forest for the Trees"
