I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.
I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.