"I am sure that some are BORN TO WRITE as trees are born to bear leaves: for these, writing is a NECESSARY mode of their own development. If the impulse to write survives the hope of success, then one is among these. If not, then the impulse was at best only pardonable vanity, and it will certainly disappear when hope is withdrawn."

 - C.S. Lewis, Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves