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I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.