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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

I always have to be writing.

I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I wrote when I could. Weekends were good typewriter time. Now, it's whenever I feel there's something to be put on paper. I don't care what time it is, though I always write in the notebooks at night.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I like being a writer.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.