After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.
Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.