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I really wanted to be a writer.

I want to be a writer someday.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

I just feel really fortunate to build a career as a writer.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

I wrote a lot of fiction, but it was just college stuff. It seems to me you have to be so confident in yourself to become a writer.