It comes up often enough.

Among book lovers.

The question, "Why do writers write?"

It's sort of rhetorical,

Sort of general,

Sort of philosophical,

And almost unimportant.

Yet the question is asked again,

And again.

It's something Mark Coker dissected.

It's something Paulo Coelho addressed

"Writers," He said, "Write to be read."

Logical enough. Eloquent too, in a succinct way.

The question, though, persists, "Why do writers write?"

Perhaps it's unanswerable.

I got this note last week;

All to say, I don't...