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I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

It's taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

I read a lot of detective novels.

I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.