Quote

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I write novels and other things.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I'm glad I wrote them when I did because I think if I were to write my first novel now, it would be a different book, and it may not be the book that everybody wants to read. But if I were given a red pen now, and I went back... I'd take that thing apart.

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

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.