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As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.