Ten Books Before Twenty: Why I Could Not Stop

Essay

I reached ten published books before twenty. People ask how. The real answer is that I could not stop. Not as discipline, though that is part of it, but as necessity. The writing was the only place where the interior life had room to be what it actually was. Each book came from a specific season and a specific question I was living inside. Ten books means ten rooms I went through. It is not a ceiling. It is the record of where the work has taken me so far.