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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

— Vikas Swarup

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

— Richard Paul Evans

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

— Charles Frazier

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

— Lennie James

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

— Jane Lindskold

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

— J. B. Priestley

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

— Trisha Yearwood

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

— Laurell K. Hamilton