I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.
I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.
I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick.
I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.