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

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

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

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

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.