“The Dark Half” (post 4) by Stephen King (post 13): “Who are you when you write, Thad? Who are you then?” And who whispered that question?

“…he was a writer, an imaginer. He had never met one—including himself—who had more than the vaguest idea of why he or she did anything. He sometimes believed that the compulsion to make fiction was no more than a bulwark against confusion, maybe even insanity…Inside him a voice whispered for the first time: Who are you when you write, Thad? Who are you then?” (1, p. 138).

And which alternate personality whispered that question? Was it Richard Bachman or another one?

1. Stephen King. The Dark Half [1989]. New York, Gallery Books, 2018.