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

I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.