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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.