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My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

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

The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.

My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

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

My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.