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I mean, I don't write for kids.

I think probably you can either write for kids, or you can't. That ability to imaginatively be a child and see the world as a child and feel and think like a child - you either have that ability or you don't.

Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

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 always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.