So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.
I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.