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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.