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I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

I've been writing since I was 19.

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

It took me sixteen years to write.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.