Writers start as constant readers fascinated by the artifice of shape and falsification.

Evidence

Constant readers become writers at the point in life when they acquire a fascination with a process of falsification: with imposing shape while simulating the evolution of character and event, making determinations while fostering an illusion that in the next chapter anything might happen. A novelist spends a lifetime in the business of presenting what’s lifelike, but not like life. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 954

Categorization

• SEED: SEED: useful for an essay on why readers naturally drift into writing
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 954