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I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.

Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.

I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.