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For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.