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I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.

I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.