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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.