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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.

I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

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

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.