Genuine motivation

"I recently read an interview in which Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison was asked why she had become a great writer, what books she had read, what method she had used to structure her practice. She laughed and said,'Oh, no, that is not why I am a great writer. I am a great writer because when I was a little girl and walked into a room where my father was sitting, his eyes would light up. That is why i am a great writer. That is why. There isn't any other reason.' " ---Donald Miller from his recent book "Searching for God Knows What"