"I knew from a very young age that I would be a writer. Reading and writing always seemed to me to go together. My teachers and librarians were impressed with my reading habits because I devoured the classics. It wasn't so much that my tastes were particularly 'refined,' or that I was exceptionally 'advanced,' but that I had no desire to read stories set in the present. As far as I was concerned, the whole point of reading was to transport out of the here-and-now. Historical fiction was my favorite genre. I read nothing that took place after 1700. I also loved fairy tales (particularly those in which the younger sister is the heroine). My favorite authors wrote swashbucklers. Dale Snedecker, Howard Pyle and Jeffrey Farnol wrote books with terrific heroines who could ride horses, swordfight and 'slay dragons' as well, if not better, than any man. When I was a little order, Sir Walter Scott and Alexander Dumas were also very important to me. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a book I came to love for entirely different reasons. My mother was quite often ill while I was growing up and she died when I was twelve.
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