People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't really consider myself a writer.
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
A writer is what I am.
I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
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