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I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.