The Right to Write

"We should write because it is human nature to write. Writings claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are spiritual being beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connection us both to own insights and to a higher and deeper level of inner guidance.

We should write because writing brings clarity an passion to the act of living. Writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. We should write because writing is good for the soul. We should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

We should write, above all, because we are writer, whether we call ourselves that or now."

- Julia Cameron