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I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.

It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.