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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

I've been writing full-time since 1978.

I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.