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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 didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.

I've been writing full-time since 1978.

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.