If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
I was twenty-seven when I came up with the idea for my first novel.
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book.
I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories.
Just start writing and you'll find what you want to say.
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.
When I was 18 or 19, I started writing raps properly.
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
