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I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

I had been encouraged a lot by my parents and my sixth grade teacher, James Doyle at Main Street Elementary School. He was an early supporter of my writing ability.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.