Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
When I was 26 or 27, I took a year off before I was going to get my Ph.D. in geography and started traveling. And within a month, I said, 'I don't want to be academic. I want to write fiction.' And as soon as I said that - 'I'm going to write fiction' - everything in my life started to make sense.
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.
What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.
In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.
From age 7 on, I wanted to be a writer.
At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.