Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.
One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.
Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.
Writing is agony. I hate it.
Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.
There's nothing more painful than writing.
It's painful to consider anything but writing.