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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

I'm not setting out to adapt books and work with books, but when really amazing stories come to you in that form, it's really hard to turn away from that.