When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.
I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.
I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.
Basically, I always wanted to be an author but went through all these other jobs while getting up the nerve to finally go for it with my writing! Thank goodness it worked; who knows what I might have done next?
It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.
I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.