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I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.