I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.
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Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
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.
Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.
I read several books at one time.
In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
My first book was the book that changed my life.
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