I am a writer...
"A truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, and failure is death. Added to this cruelly delicate organism the over powering need to create, create, create -- so without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating." Pearl S. Buck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1892-1973)