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I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.

I really wanted to be a writer.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I always wanted to be a writer.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.