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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

I became a children's author by accident.

I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.