S.C. Gwynne, the author of Empire of the Summer Moon - a New York Times Bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist, was asked by AdviceToWriters:
What’s your advice to new writers?
Gwynne replied:
[...] I would say the most important thing is to discover what you want to write about.
And I would agree with Gwynne, because writers don’t particularly love writing, but they love what they write about.