On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.
I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
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