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Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.