After reading the book, The Writing Life by Annie Dillard I learned that the term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word is most likely used with or used towards those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. Skilled writers demonstrate skills in using language to portray ideas and images, whether producing fiction or non-fiction. I believe that a writer is born to write, I don't think somewhere down the road you can just decide that when I grow up I want to be a writer unless you already have it in you.

Writers need to work to see their surroundings and they must look at the world tenderly and recognize each being's special qualities. In the book, she says that writers should practice a state with lack of involvement. And she also talks a...