Who Has the Right to Be a Writer? | Literary Hub

In fact, the very act of enrolling in this introductory class was her attempt to quell that voice that had so long said she couldn't do it. But then, within that classroom, spending 75 minutes twice a week parsing the styles and techniques of the people who had succeeded at doing what she had only just convinced herself might be possible, or at least worth a shot, she was starting to reckon with that same feeling that the world of art, and a life in service of it, was not for people like her.