You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
If you want to become a writer, you do need to be willing to make sacrifices.
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.