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I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

My mother taught me how to write.

Reading taught me how to write.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

If you can talk, you can write.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.