Paulo Coelho said:
When I was fifteen, I said to my mother: “I’ve discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.”
“My dear,” she replied sadly, “Your father is an engineer. He’s a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually know what it means to be a writer?”
“Being someone who writes books.”
“Your Uncle Haroldo, who is a doctor, also writes books, and has even published some. If you study engineering, you can always write in your spare time.”
“No, mama. I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.”
“But have you ever met a writer? Have you ever seen a writer?”
“Never. Only in photographs.”
“So how can you possibly want to be a writer if you don’t really know what it means?”
Then, Paulo Coelho decided to research and learned about what being a writer meant in the early 1960s;
‘A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other disheveled, bespectacled writers. He says very ‘deep’ things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.’
I Said:
But, nowadays, there are so many ustaz and ustazah have the desire to become a writer. They have good personality and knowledgeable in their field. They could lead the society through their writing.
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i’m deadly serious about being a writer but in the same time i wanna be a doctor. i’m ex-student of MARA Junior Science College of Kuala Terengganu (MRSM) and i’m waitin’ for the spm results. i realized that i have a unique hobby, that differentiates me from my siblings. i never thought of being a writer, but i believe if i love it and put some efforts on writing, i can publish a novel as well as ummu hani.