I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'
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When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.
In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.