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I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

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

I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.