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I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

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

I loved to read and would read anything that roused my interest, whether it was below my age level or above it, even if I could barely make sense of it.

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.