Writing, after all, is a spiritual experience

Writing is a spiritual experience, not because of any particular theology expressed, but because it comes from within us. Whatever thoughts we express, through a central theme of a story or through fictional or real-life characters, start with an idea within us that we feel led to commit to the written word.
Anne Lamott says, "I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? Let's think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world."
In addition, the writer emotes. The poet Robert Frost said, "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader." You could substitute any number of words for "tears." For instance, "No joy in the writer, no joy in the reader."
There is a scene in the movie The Summer House in which one of the characters proclaims, "Every human has something to cry about."
The late actor Jack Lemmon said, "It's hard to write drama. It's hard to write comedy. It's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy, which is what life is."