I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.
I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I had to do it while I was still young and had an appetite for risk.
At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.
When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.
I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.