As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading.
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I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them.
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.
I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.
I love telling stories from a kid's point of view because they don't really see all the obstacles in front of them. They're resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.
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