I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.
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I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.
When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.
I have written stories since I was a child.
I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.
I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.
I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
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