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I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

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

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.