No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.
A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.
The desire to write grows with writing.
I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.
Writing is like carrying a fetus.