I never became a cowboy or baseball player, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really became a writer. I find that I hesitate to put that label on myself, to define myself by what I do for a living.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.
I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.
I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.
I've always been a writer.
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.
I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.
I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.