I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.
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I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.
I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.
When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.
When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.
When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.
When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.
I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.