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When I was growing up, a lot of books affected me, but I never wrote letters to the author or anything like that. I'm always mindful that there are probably a whole bunch of people reading my books like that, too.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.

I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.