41.   For Butler, writing about food is similar to writing fiction.

42.   For me and most other writers I know, writing is not rapturous.

43.   For Potok, writing has been a way of organizing the chaotic world around him, working through that ever-changing map in his brain.

44.   For Brown, writing is neither a romantic adventure nor a mundane chore.

45.   For Casanova, writing was a bit like death.

46.   For Hannibal, writing this piece was very much a discerning process.

47.   For Welty, writing was organic to plain life, even when her stories flashed with symbolism or echoes of Greek mythology.

48.   For Ms. Shields, writing is like quilt-making, and the important thing is the creating.

49.   For others, writing could be a form of escape from the grayness of ordinary life.

50.   From then on, the prevalent theme in most of his writing has been how the rich and privileged escape judgment.