I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.