Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.
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I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer.
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.
I wanted to be a novelist for so long.
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.