I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.
I do not write, I build.
I didn't write. I just wandered about.
You write about what you know.
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.
While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I'd be an automotive designer - I grew up in Detroit - and I also studied, geology because I was interested in science, a little bit.
Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.