"You can't stop writing, Joe. Not without special dispensation and a new assigned task."

"Maybe that's what I need. Something other than writing."

"That'd be even tougher, to get them to send you to a totally different unit. It'd mean filling out seventy different request forms, then consultation and a trial, and even then you don't have much choice as to where they'd put you. It's up to them."

"And they decided I'm a writer."

"Well, yeah. It's what you're good at."

"Then why don't they care if I write or not?"