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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

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

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.