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I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. That was what I call 'wishful-thinking writing.' I grew up in the city and always wanted a horse, but there was no way I was getting a horse. So I wrote all these stories about kids who had horses. It's still fun entering these other worlds.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.