I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.