Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
I've always been a writer.
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.
I've been writing since I was 19.
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
I've always been writing.
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
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