I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.