I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.
One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and had similar life experiences.
Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
I always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about myself. There was never a question of me not writing.
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.