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I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.