Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'
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The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.
There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
You become a great writer by writing.