Growing up, my mom was a painter, my best friend was a painter, my husband is a painter. For a long time I knew artists, and I didn't know any writers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.
My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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