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I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

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

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

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 wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.