Blog Pickle - quote - about writing

I'm reading a book called "The Soloist" that my friend Harrison dropped off at my front door. The author, Steve Lopez, is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where he first wrote a series of enormously popular columns about Nathaniel Ayers who was a homeless and very talented musician.

The book is amazing and I will probably write another entry about it later.

But, for now...I liked something he wrote in his book about writing.

Here's the quote:

"It was in Philadelphia in the mid-1980s that I had an epiphany. The challenge isn't to figure out how to write, I realized, but why. Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading."