I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.