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I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.