I didn’t know I was going to become a writer. I never thought about that as a career. It never, I liked to write, and I actually don’t think I realized how much I liked writing until later. When I went back and I looked at journals that I kept, or assignments that I did from school. I was like, oh, I actually wrote a lot as a young person. But it was just never in my mind that somebody like me could do that for a job. I just really had this stereotype of a writer that, you know, had to be literary. You had to be live in New York City, you know, had to have gone to a good school, Oxford University or something like that. Those were the kinds of writers that I like to read. I think because I was such a voracious reader, I read above my level.
I mean, I just kind of ran out of books and just kept going. So I was reading literary works. I read Victor Hugo, and Tess of the d’Urbervilles and all of these things like before we were reading them in school. So I don’t really know what that did to my writing style, but I think it got in there somewhere. When I think back a lot about being a kid, about being a young person, just as an only child, and parents who are so busy, I just spent so much time by myself with books and just thinking about those stories. Just kind of a dreamer, I guess. Daydreaming a lot. Daydreaming a lot in class when I was supposed to be paying attention. Daydreaming a lot in church, so I’m not really sure what it did. It did something that has to do something to you, right.
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