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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

I tend to read non-fiction.

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.