I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.
I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.
I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. On the other hand, the more I read, the more I felt this well-known fissure between me and the world.
I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.
I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.