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I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

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

Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I've always been writing.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.