Hadis asked Sara Nović:

When did you start writing? For how long did you want to become a writer and how long did it take to succeed?

Sara Nović I always wrote in journals since I was really young--my mom started me on it because I was so introverted, and she thought it would be a good way for me to express myself. As I got older, I moved on to writing (bad) poetry and short stories. That said, even though I've pretty much always loved writing, I didn't think of it as something I could do for a career; I was the first person to go to college in my family, and everyone in my life had "real jobs." I ended up studying writing and publishing as an undergrad, but I still assumed I would end up in the publishing side of things to pay the bills. I always kept writing, though, despite all my day jobs, and then when I enrolled in an MFA program, for me that was when I thought, "Okay, this *can* be a real job" if you work really hard...and get lucky.

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