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I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.