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My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.

I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

I was always interested in creative writing growing up. From junior high on, I was writing short stories. I also grew up watching movies. My father would take me to everything. Most weeks, I could open the paper having seen every movie listed.

My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.