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Lesson 12: Why I Write 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. =During the age of 15 to 24, I attempted to give up this idea, but when I was doing so, I felt that it was ruining my essential quality and that I would engage in writing sooner or later.  I was the middle child of three, but there was a