One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.
I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.
Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.
I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.
I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.
I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,' but I just didn't care.
If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.
I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're born with.
