What sort of a person becomes a writer?
I believe it’s someone who feels different
from his mates.
Not only that, he hears explanations of
the way things work and they don’t make any sense to him. He questions them.
He soon learns this makes other people
nervous. He learns to keep his questions
to himself. To keep his own counsel.
It’s like keeping two sets of books. He leads a double life, from early on, as a
member of his family, a student, a playmate to other kids, other members of the
gang, our gang, he’s not a real member of the gang, he’s an outsider, not fully
accepted, and he’s not sure why, or doesn’t know what to do to become accepted.
He’s pretty sure it’s not him who’s crazy,
it’s them, but how likely is that, that everybody else is crazy and he’s sane.
He keeps this to himself.