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I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.

I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.