To me, the pinnacle of my career is writing for youth. I can die happy: I have succeeded in doing what I have always wanted to do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
I just feel really fortunate to build a career as a writer.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.
My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.
There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck.
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.
What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.