Own Your Path

I told my mother at the age of four that I was going to be a famous writer. I don't know how a child would even know what a famous writer is, but I knew that I wanted to write. I knew books were in my life, and I was going to write lots of books and become very famous. And I did. I had some fame. I knew that books were in my future. I knew that I wanted to write. I didn't know how that was going to happen. My mother was a single parent with five children she had to take care of, and what she wanted me to do was to go out and get a job. And she wanted me to be a typist. And even when I started writing books, she couldn't get her head around the fact that I wasn't a typist. Every time I spoke to her, she'd say, 'Have you got lots of typing to do this week?' and I'd say yes. She didn't know what I was typing was writing books.