My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
My role as a novelist is to explore ideas and imagination, and hopefully that will inspire people from my world to continue dreaming and to believe in dreams.
I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.
Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.
I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.