I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.
I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.
I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.