Are you a writer?

These words appear toward the end of Charles McGrath's recent NYT profile of Don DeLillo:

Mr. DeLillo is 73 now and considers himself a late bloomer. He didn't publish his first novel until he was 35, after quitting a job in advertising and after what he calls "a golden age of reading," in which he would "consume fiction as if it were breakfast cereal."

Asked why his first book took him so long, he answered: "I don't have any explanation for that. All I know is that one day I said to myself...