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

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

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

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

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.