I became a children's author by accident.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
I am astonished, when I pause to think about it, to discover myself to be an author of humorous novels for children. Or an author at all. I had a childhood much like everyone else's. What went wrong?
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.