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I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.