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I know how to write fiction well.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.