I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.
I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.