问答题
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I
grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-（1）
four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience that I（2）
was outraging my true nature and that soon or later I should have to （3）
settle down and write books.
I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years on the（4）
either side,and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons
I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeing mannerisms which（5）
made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of
making up stories and holding conversations with imaginative persons, and （6）
I think from the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the （7）
feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with
words and a power of facing in unpleasant facts,and I felt that this created（8）
a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure in（9）
everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious — i.e. seriously intended（10）
— writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount
to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother
taking it down to dictation.
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