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I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.

I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.

I would trade everything I have to have had a happier childhood.

My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.

I want to be read, and I certainly want to sell, but I also see my father's eye from Heaven: 'Always write quality. It doesn't matter if you sell; if it's good, it's good - if you capture the complexity of life.'