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I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

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.

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.