Good writers are born not made true or false?

Answer 1

Writers are born in order to write. Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet who was regarded by many critics in his times as the best writer. Victor Hugo regarded him as little Shakespeare. He started writing or rather he became a writer at a very tender age - and by the age of 17 he was at top of his career was well known all over France. By the age of 21 years he completely retired from writing all together. He did not retire because writing made him rich and wealthy. In fact he did not generate any real significa income from his writing, yet he was great. Rimbaud's poetry, as well as his life, made an indelible impression on 20th century writers, musicians and artists. Pablo Picasso, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Vladimir Nabokov, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Léo Ferré and Jim Morrison have been influenced by his poetry and life

Arthur Rimbaud is a good personification of the idea that it appears a writer is a born writer more than trained writer. I say it appears, because still there are other people who became writers, good writers through hard years of trial and error, or they learned to become good writers because circumstances channeled them to be writers, like finding themselves in a job that required a lot of writing. In that way they came to the profession of writing accidentally.

But consider the writers like Arthur Rimbaud; consider also William Shakespeare, Consider Victor Hugo and Emily Dickinson. By all probabilities you will agree that true writing you come into this world with it; you come into this world as a writer. Writers are born not trained. Consider what Arthur Rimbaud once said referring to a poet. I will say the quotation below by Arthur Rimbaud is not only about poets but writers in general, viz article writer, fiction writer and so on. Here is what Arthur Rimbaud said at the age of 17 years old describing and defining a poet:

"The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one--and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!"