When did you first know you were a writer?

When did you first know you were a writer?

Russell Celyn Jones (Published writer. Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MA Programme at Birkbeck College (University of London).) gives expert video advice on: What drives you to write?; When did you first know you were a writer?; What do you love most about writing? and more...

I think I discovered I was a writer around about the age of twenty-five. After reading quite extensively for five, ten years, there comes a point as a reader when you think, 'I could do this.' Or, 'I want to do this.' And you're also driven, as I was, by a love of sentences, a love of language, because language is the brushstrokes in the canvas, it's the sound that fiction makes, really. And I just had a, maybe a bit of a poet in me.