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I don't like writing essays or theory.

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

My work is formal, not based on psychology.