You can write something that makes no sense and it’s still writing and it’s still important to the process.

I just sat down and forced myself to write. I think for so many years I looked at writing as this thing like, “Oh, yeah, an idea comes to you and then you write.” Realizing, oh no, it’s not that. Writing is like any other job. You just do it. You get better at it as you go along.

I think that what might be helpful to hear right now from somebody that I trust—and also something that I hope is true—is that you never lose it, by which I mean that you never lose the ability to make art that matters to you.