I write, therefore I am, simply put.

I write because I prefer to have something to do rather than nothing to do. I write because of my need to express, my hate for a lot of things, my love for some things, interest in other things, and most importantly, my inability to shut up It has often been said that writers are clearly insane. I have no trouble believing that, and what /is/ clear is that I am in the right place. Writing because I am slightly insane, or slightly insane because I write.

Or both.

More to the point of all this, writers are all a little weird in the head in some way or another. Writers and artists are ten times more likely to suffer from depression and the suicide rate for writers is eighteen times higher than that of the general public. So yeah, they're a different kind of people. I'm not depressed or suicidal. But I do know the writer's emoangst very well. Obviously or not, and whether they may just be slightly or even marginally mad, just don't anger a writer. And you'll succeed in this if you are a stupid person. Really, who feels like they have time for putting up with stupid people and the like. They suck, and they're boring and awful company. Most writers, speaking of younger writers in this case (by that, I mean teens especially...but not Christopher Paolini the Idiot), lack tolerance. It can't be expected that a person will will escape unscathed after pissing one off through their stupidity or something similar. 

More importantly, one should NOT get impatient with a writer's obsession... writing. They'll usually be obsessed with that and/or something else that you just don't see anything cool in. That's the way it goes, and those things are usually cooler than anything you're interested in. You're impatient with your writer friend busy and obsessive with a novel in progress? Chances are you couldn't write one nearly as good, so shut the hell up before you go and insult him/her. If you think that writing is stupid, pointless or even nerdy, I'll inform you now,  chances are you really have no idea what writing is and what it means to the people who write and the people who really know how to read a book.

So in conclusion, if one of your friends is a writer and you are not, you probably don't know what's going on inside his/her head, either that or you know very little. When novel writing or anything else, a writer will need all the support that he or she can get... remember what I said about them early on? I speak for all the young writers I know, in my life or online.  They're probably very different to you.

And they're special people.
Don't forget it.