The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.
I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.