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I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

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

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.