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I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.

I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.'

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

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.