I've got one thing. And for me it was writing. I've written all my life. I started writing poems when I was seven . . . What I do today is just a continuation of what I did then putting feelings on paper, sorting out things. . .
Emotion is often the motivator for expression through writing, or through any art.
The writers were motivated by emotion and often used reading and later, writing, as autotherapy. Barron noted that the student writers in the IPAR study were often motivated to write by a need for self therapy, but the adult writers who had reached a level of recognized success as creative writers also spoke of their emotional need to write. I could go on and on here with example after example. Young artists draw. Young singers sing.