But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
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I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
It wasn't until I realised that I could actually take nice photographs that I started to become passionate about it. I then got a few jobs working for magazines in London, and I would get terribly excited and intense about doing a job and taking photographs and looking through the lens to capture something amazing.
I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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