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By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always a novel around. The strange thing was that after 'Remember Me,' there wasn't.