I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.
I wanted to be a novelist for so long.
I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.
I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.
I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
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.