Carter Wilson Interviewed Hundreds of Writers — Here’s What He Learned From Them | BookTrib.

After nearly 150 conversations with writers of all backgrounds (from NYT bestselling thriller authors, to hopeful debuts, to historians, science writers and poets), I'm still amazed how much connective tissue binds us writers together. A few commonalities I've evidenced throughout my interviews:

• Most writers can name a specific person or event that happened in their teenage years that made them want to write.
• Writing is less a plan than it is a purpose. Despite all efforts to do anything but write, the act of writing will burrow its way to the surface at some point in a writer's life.
• No one sets out to write because it's a solid business decision...