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I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

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

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

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.