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From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.

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

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

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.

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me.

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.