I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
From age 7 on, I wanted to be a writer.
I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.