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

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

I always wanted to be a writer.