A writer is a person who shares his/her deepest, darkest, scariest, most romantic and corniest stories in life on a few pieces of paper.

...Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
—George Orwell

...The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written.”
—Joyce Carol Oates, WD