It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
I really wanted to be a writer.
I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.
I always wanted to be a writer.
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 wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.
I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.
I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.