I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.
From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.
I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
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