When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.
What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.
I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
I have written stories since I was a child.
I started writing stories in my spare time.
I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
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.
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
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.