To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and it's very intoxicating, but it doesn't give you what you need as a writer. You have to do something else for that.
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.
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
A writer is what I am.
I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.
If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.