I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.
I came from a home where everybody had a book.
One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
I grew up in a house with very few books.
The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!