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I've never written a book before.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.