I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.
I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.
I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.
I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.