Video: John Irving: How to Tell if You're a Writer

Posted on July 28, 2024

In this Big Think video, John Irving explains how to tell if you're a writer. For Irving it had to do with the alone time he needed.

Irving was asked, "Did you know from an early age that you would be a writer.

Irving explains some "pre-writing moments" included a need to be alone. He says, "I had a need to come home from school myself and to be in a room by myself or in my grandmother's garden by myself.

There is definitely an introvert and writing correlation.

Irving was also writing in a journal at a young age.

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