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I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.

More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.