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I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

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

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.