I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
I was an A student and I liked creative writing.
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 started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.