I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.
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Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.
I wrote a lot of fiction, but it was just college stuff. It seems to me you have to be so confident in yourself to become a writer.
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
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