I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.
I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.
Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.
I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
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.
When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.
When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.
When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.