I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.
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I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.
I started writing when I was about thirteen.
The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.
I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.
I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
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.