I Have No Regrets About Being a Writer

Sometimes i wonder whether you even regret being a writer, ecause you have a love hate relationship with what you do. I mean, i think that i was made to do thisand i need to doit, and i don't feel that it's going inward. The first time i had an impulse to write anything, i was nine years old. And i sat down and wrote probably the most wretched poem ever written about the coming of spring, ever written by a mortal human being in the new world. By trying to write about what was happening, i felt more connected to the world around me. I felt that i had found a place for myself inside this teeming, chaotic reality