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My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I think of myself as a fantasy writer.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.