"The irresistible proliferation of graphomania among politicians, taxi drivers, childbearers, overs, murderers, thieves, prostitutes, officials, doctors, and patients show me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within them, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: “We are all writers!”
For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an different universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.
One morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived."
---Milan Kundera, "The Letter of Laughing and Forgetting"
