I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.
It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.
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.
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
I think the fundamental thing about writing fiction is that you write what interests you and what inspires you. It can't be forced. I see no need to write about anything else or any other type of world.