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Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.

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

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.

I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.