"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it"

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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.

— Joan Didion