What kind of person makes a good writer?

What kind of person makes a good writer?

Derek Johns (Managing Director - AP Watt Literary Agency) gives expert video advice on: How can a writer increase their chances of getting noticed?; What kind of person makes a good writer?; Do writers need particular qualities to succeed? and more...

In my experience, it's very hard to say what kind of person makes a good writer. Writers come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. When it comes to fiction, then I suppose that one is looking for somebody who has had a degree of experience of life that is going to inform their work and make it real.