Has there ever been a successful author that despised English or writing in general?

Question

I hate having to put my pen down on paper sometimes but I want to be a writer. Is it even possible for someone to hate a subject but be fluent in it and turn into a career?

Answer 1

Basically, you're implying that you hate the act of writing itself, but would enjoy receiving the title of 'a writer.' This is a conceited view, and while it is not impossible that you could be a writer someday (if you really want it that badly), I can for sure say, if you hate writing, that you will not be a great or even good writer. Writing is hard work, and should be done because you actually care for the craft and have something important to say, not because you want some title or money.

Answer 2

Lots of successful writers despise their craft. And that's what writing is: a craft, something that you have to continually polish.
Proust sealed himself off in a cork-lined room to write his masterpiece.
Orwell went all the way up to a remote Scottish island so he could start on this "damn book that had been bothering him".
That book was 1984.
If you are serious when you say "you hate to put your pen to paper", then I wouldn't write. I would find something you enjoy doing rather than get involved in the tedium of writing.
Besides, very few people make it as writers.

Answer 3

Irish! James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett. yet, u.s. has produced some staggering authors too, like Henry James, Ayn Rand, J.D Salinger, T.S Eliot, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemmingway, and so on at the same time as Virigina Woolf, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, all 3 of the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen and so on, were english. i imagine that's no longer conceivable to say who produces the most acceptable authors contained in the international, i imagine they arrive from global!

Answer 4

Marianne Moore in "Poetry":

I, too, dislike it: there are things are important
beyond all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all a place for the genuine.....

Rilke was torn to pieces by his writing. He left his wife and child because he was being consumed by them. He began psychotherapy with Carl Jung but abandoned it saying, "If my devils are to leave me then I fear my angels will as well.

For every Trollope, who would assign himself 1000 words after breakfast and put a full stop exactly after the 1000th word there are probably 100 for whom writing is torture of some kind.

Answer 5

Yeah, whoever said "I hate writing. I like having written."
Me too, but I'm not successful.

Answer 6

Have you heard of Shakespeare? He certainly seems to have hated the language, seeing how many words he seems to have made up, and how much he breaks common grammatical guidlines

Answer 7

Sure, tons of them. Mostly Arabs, the French, the Dutch, German, Spanish, Argentinians, anyone against the British colonialists and now America. I'm sure they professed their disdain for English in many a book.