At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.
I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.