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I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

I'm an accidental writer.

I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.