I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.
I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
I've always been a writer.
I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.
I've never written a book before.
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.