" If you are a reader, you are already halfway to being a writer,’ she says. ‘For you have a love of words and pleasure from seeing them on a page. And if you are a writer, then you will find that you are driven to write. It is a gift that demands to be shared. You cannot be a silent singer. "

― Philippa Gregory , The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)