Because I want to write...

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"When I was seven, I said to my mother,

may I close my door?

And she said, yes,
but why do you want to close your door?

And I said because I want to think.

And when I was eleven,
I said to my mother,

may I lock my door?

And she said, yes,
but why do you want to lock your door?

And I said because I want to write. "

~ Dorothy West