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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

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

I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was always interested in writing or illustrating children's books, and I started collecting out-of-print books when I was about 10 years old.

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.