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I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq.

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

I want to be a writer someday.

Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative journalist as the heroine.