It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.