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I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

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