My mama loved books; I became fascinated by the wonderful stories that came out of these things she held in her hand - and started to make them up myself.
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I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.
You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.
I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in books and have people like my mother glued to the page.
I grew up reading - and loving - stories by Andre Norton. I admired and idolised her from afar. Her stories helped shape my own internal world.
From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.
When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.
Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.
I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.
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