'Do you find sentences fascinating?'

Dinty W. Moore of Brevity Magazine, in The Review Review: I have a standard answer for folks who ask me, "Do you think I should be a writer?" Or "Do you think I can succeed as a writer?"  My answer is, "Do you find sentences fascinating?" That's what it comes down to in the end.  It is a good thing to live a rich life full of experiences, it is a good thing to have boundless curiosity about what drives people, it is a good thing to be disciplined, it is a good thing to see the world from interesting angles rather than straightforwardly and predictably, but after all of that — and all of that is important — you are alone in your room, changing and changing and restoring and reversing and…