I did very badly at school．My headmaster thought I was useless and when I was 14， he said， “You’re n   going to be anything but a failure.”
After five years of poor jobs， I fell in love with a very nice g．But her mother said to me， “You’ve failed in everything you’ve ever done．You can’t give any happiness to my d  !” It was the disappointing thing that could have changed me later．I d  to do something positive about my life， because I wanted to show her that what people said about me was w  .
So I tried hard at my writing and went to college．My first book came out while I was at college．After college I w  during the day and went to evening classes at college．Later， I gave up that job to use full time to write．And then I was offered a part-time job as a t   at a high school．I began to feel p   of my self – there was once a poor boy who’d left school early， now teaching at a key high school．My w  career took off when I had my own writing style.
Now， I’m rich and f ， because I am often on TV and many people know me．But what does that mean? I just wish all the people who have looked down on me had said， “I believe in you．You’ll succeed.”