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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

I never wanted to be a writer.

I never set out to be a published writer.

I never intended to become a writer.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.

I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.