Reflective Essay on Myself as a writer

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Immortality of Writing

I do not believe that are born . Literally , babies do not start crawling out of their mother 's womb and scribbling words down . I am confident that are shaped by their past and present environment One of these environmental factors is education - a constant factor which determines a writer 's style and development . A writer 's education is not limited to the formal type but also extends its arms to the most personal experiences and realizations that occur in one 's life

. It is the primary determinant of how a writer would turn out to be in the future and what his or her subjects would be

I was not raised with books unlike other famous . My parents were not fond of them . They would either spend their time working too much or taking care of us . However , when I was 5 , I remember my father buying me three illustrated fairytale stories when he noticed me eyeing a copy of Cinderella . I was not really interested in reading it . It was the colors and images that attracted me to it - or so I thought . He bought me Cinderella , Sleeping Beauty and Jack and the Beanstalk . All the time , I was not reading them . I was merely looking at the colorful images and decorative writing . At some point , I tried tracing the images by placing an onionskin (that I discovered from my mother 's office items ) on top of the...