Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.
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.
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.
I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical Care' for years. I would go for a whole year and not touch it. And then I'd go back to it.
When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.
At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.