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I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

I started writing to save my life.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.