Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
I really wanted to be a writer.
'Fire and Hemlock' is the reason I'm a writer.
I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.
I always wanted to be a writer.
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.