In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.
I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
I was 12. Our, teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up, and that's when I thought maybe I was a writer, or at least a fiction writer.
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.
In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.
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