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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

I come from a working-class background, and I thought I had to be studying something that would get me a job.

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.