I connect with this quote because I believe it is a very accurate description of myself when I do not write. For me writing gives me the ability to get out of my own head. Writing allows me to put my anxiety on paper. Everything that I can't stop obsessing over leaves my head, enters my fingers, and befriends the paper. When I can not write, in a way it is my own form of insanity. From first to third grade I hated the thought of picking up a book, and despised even having to write my name at the top of my paper. However when I went to public school in fourth grade, I began to view writing, reading, and English class differently. After that I began to look forward to any opportunity I got to write or read. My sophomore year however, I got a
