Why are writers driven to write, according to Tobias Wolff? Also, what does Wolff say should be our motivation in reading short stories?

"The social act of a solitary act"(Pg.11, 19) is how Jack Yeats described writing. This line implies a lot of things about the life of a writer. Why is it the act of a solitary man? Does this mean that a writer is someone who is alone and cannot express their views and feelings? On thinking more clearly I found that this line made much sense. It said that it was a social act, which probably pointed to influencing other people's lives, of a solitary man in my opinion meant any person who cannot or has difficulty in expressing their views and opinions, someone who has no one to share his/her experiences and imaginations with. So in short a writer is driven to write because he/she is influencing other people's lives with their experiences and because it gives them a way of telling the world about their ideas. Also he says that "romance" is what keeps them going. "Making life where there was none"(Pg.16 29) is what Wolff describes as the writers's ambition. I think this is one of the only reason why a writer is interested in writing. To create something out of nothing, which is impossible scientifically, is the goal and passion of a writer.
As Wolff says there are a lot of things that motivate us to read. The most common of which would be the hunger for knowledge. Usually people are interested in knowing how everything around them works, what is beyond their eyesight, etcetera. This huger for knowledge makes people learn more and more and people basically end up learning about their surroundings for the first 20 to 30 years. But that is not what Wolff says should be our motivation in reading. According to him our motivation to read should be to look for that life where there really was none. To recognize the imagination or the experiences of the author. That is what I think Wolff says should be our motivation for reading.