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There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world, just like I did with the Greeks and 'Percy Jackson.' I'll give the books an urban setting and have young people interacting with the Norse gods.

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods.

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any trilogy I wrote. I was fascinated by the Eddas, the Norse and Icelandic legends, Odin on the world tree.

Libraries can take the place of God.