Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.
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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.
When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.
A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.
One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and had similar life experiences.
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.
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