Words and me

Writing came naturally to me after several thousand practice runs

Everything I wrote for the first 10 years came out of this machine.

The words you’re reading right now don’t belong to me. 

What does belong to me is this sentence, and the one above, and every one I’ll write today and every other one I’ve written in my lifetime.

Writers use words the way a carpenter uses nails, because without nails there wouldn’t be a w…