Writing stories you hope children will read is more rewarding than writing for adults. Adults are not good correspondents. But if children like your books, they respond with thousands of letters. What Readers Want to Know Children ask a lot of questions. Anthony Trollope, the great English storyteller, said that it was a piece of sticking plaster with which to fasten your pants to a chair.
Writing is hard, harder than digging a ditch, and it requires patience.
Children also want to know where you went to school, when you published your first book, how long a book takes to write, where ideas come from, and what your hobbies are. As I Thought I graduated from Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California, the brightest boy, my teachers said, they'd ever had or hoped to have. I thought so, too. However, when I went to college I found to my great surprise that I was not the brightest young man in the world. Indeed, I found that most of my classmates were brighter than I was.