I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A.
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.
I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is.
I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.
I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.
Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didn't get much recognition.