How I wish I could write like Hemingway and rhyme like Wordsworth…!!!

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Ever since I got the taste of a good book, I have had this cherished desire… Yet it has taken me so long to understand that neither your ravenous reading habits nor your command over a colossal vocabulary guarantees your becoming a good writer. Writing great poetry or profound prose doesn’t happen at will. You have to have the knack for it. It should come instinctively. Even your ability to understand great literature and your inclination to play with words is not of much help. You need to be creative, and creativity can’t be taught, cultivated or acquired. One is born with either a lot or very little of it. And that’s what decides your luck with writing.