The most curious among us have always sought to see more, understand more, make things, tell stories, wrest order from chaos, illuminate our place in the universe.

From the handprints in cave art (from handsize, likely young women, you go girls!), to the neolithic folk who had sufficient creativity and zeal to develop weaving and pottery and metallurgy (great time to be alive, btw, early agrarian society, scale of farming required was small, leaving lots of time for the curious to be busy doing cool things). (And those curious neolithic folk? We owe them a debt of gratitude for precise close-up vision (that area of brain, more general before, got repurposed for fine work during this time period).)

So it's not just writers that experience that longing to understand, touch, see, discover, express, make, immortalize, etc., it's all the most curious among us.