I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.
I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.
The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.
I started writing when I was about thirteen.
I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.