Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.
All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.