Inspiration

"I would not have written Eragon if I had gone to public (state) school."
-Christopher Paolini

Christopher Paolini is a 19-year-old who recently published a fantasy book, Eragon, the first of a trilogy. He hated reading as a child. This young home-schooled fella has been on tour, and once arm-wrestled a six-foot something farmhand to sell his book!

What I like the most about his surprise success story is that he started writing at the age of 15.

Maybe it's my turn now! He doesn't seem to be a bad mentor at all, does he? :-)