My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
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You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
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 read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
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've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.