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Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

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

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

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

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 have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.