Robertson Davies on Writing
From the essay "Writing" in The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books by Robertson Davies (1996).
...I was born a writer. My family, even beyond the confines of my parents and brothers, were writers, by which I mean that they were journalists ranging from simple reporters to writers of political comment, essays, reviews, and editorial opinion. Consequently I grew up supposing that everybody wrote; wrote to order, to length, and to time, and received payment for it....I was bred to the trade....
(page 236, my emphasis)