The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.