ONE MAY AS WELL ASK WHY WE THINK.
Why do we write? I’d say we write out of a desire to explore and to learn. Out of a desire to explain, to clarify, to share.
In response to the question “How do I become a writer?”
You’ve got to love words. And Work. hard, hard work.
How do you set out to become a writer? Not the business of it, but the actual doing of it. The actual mastery of it.
First of all, read. Read a lot.
What sort of writing calls to you? Read widely in a range of genres, but of the writing you yourself hope one day to do, read the undisputed masters. And then compare that work with the work of lesser writers.