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Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.

When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s.

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.