You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.
A writer is a person who is not satisfied with the world as it is, who wants to change it, to improve it, to make it more beautiful, more just, more livable.