Quote

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

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

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

In 1989, I retired from Bell Laboratories to become a full-time writer. Not that I didn't enjoy my engineering career, but rather I liked being a novelist just a bit better.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.