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I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.
I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.
I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.
My first break was becoming a staff writer on the rebooted '90210.' And then I got stuck writing in the teen genre for a while.
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
