'Half the people I know want to be writers.
Why do you say want? If you're already doing it, then it's not about the future. It already exists in the present.
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'Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.'