"Writing feels like being in love. I am consumed by the characters I'm writing about. I become them. I lose all sense of my own reality when I'm writing a novel. It's refreshing, like running a few miles, the way you feel when you finish."

Here are glimpses of the motivation that keeps these 10 well known writers at work.
"Writing feels like being in love. I am consumed by the characters I'm writing about. I become them. I lose all sense of my own reality when I'm writing a novel. It's refreshing, like running a few miles, the way you feel when you finish."
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