Mollie's Musings

Why I Write.

In his essay "Why I Write", George Orwell states, "From a very. early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that I should be a writer." Like Orwell, I knew I should be a writer, and that knowledge was the only sure thing on my journey...Writing has been a constant: in recorded and private thoughts, in trip logs, jottings scratched in margins of shopping lists or on the backs of my children's math homework, and in small spiral notebooks that served as diaries gathered dust and traveled with me around the world.

(from the Forward to Journeys, a book of poems published by Antrim House Books)

Mollie Quealy Bork is a member of Amelia Island Writers Group, and the author of Journeys, a poetry collection and a novel, The Ensign’s Wife, under the name Mollie Pilling and MQ Pilling.