It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.
I've always been a writer.
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.
I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.
I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.