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I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.

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

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I always wanted to be a writer.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.