And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
I started writing as soon as I started reading.
Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.
In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.
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