Why I Write, 1946 [L.m./F.s.: 2019-12-29 / 0.15 KiB]
‘From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books...’