I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
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Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!
I started writing when I was about thirteen.
I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.
I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.
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