Quoting Neal Pollack (pollack_blog) who’s quoting Jonathan Safran Foer:
“Why do I write? It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer The New York Times Magazine, 2-7-05.
http://nealpollack.com/archives/2005/02/index.html#000258