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At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'
Laurence Yep
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!
Pat Barker
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I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.
Sarah Hall
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I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.


Julian Barnes
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I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.


Susan Isaacs
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I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
Gabrielle Zevin
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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
Ellen Hopkins
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'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
Jennifer Egan
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
Vikram Seth
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In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
Jose Saramago
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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.


Helen Dunmore
I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.
Geoff Dyer
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I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
Will Self
My process has changed in recent years because I now have two young kids. I have to be more regimented. The days are very short.
Lauren Kate
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
Edmund White
Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.
Tom Stoppard
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I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue.


Angel Cabrera
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Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.
Charles Stross
Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.


Lorde
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