Why Do Writers Write?

Surely, for a writer, it must be incredibly irritating to be continually probed for the reason why you write, requiring an armoury of quelling responses along the lines of “just because”. But for non-authors, the question is an intriguing one. Writing is a singularly anti-social job, one that can only really proceed with success if the practitioner consigns themselves to days spent alone with just the click of the...