What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I started writing when I was about thirteen.
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
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.
Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.