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Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne
American Writer
Born: May 20, 1949
Love Me Old Own World Writing
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week. Mary Pope Osborne
Day Writing Ride Old Live Ghosts Run Inside Castle Week Still Enchanted Dolphins Any Fort Play
I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals. Mary Pope Osborne
Love Writing Animals Imagination About Using
I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Mary Pope Osborne
Garden Secret Wilder Books Laura Princess House Wrote Prairie Burnett Loved Little Who
I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories. Mary Pope Osborne
Old Own Research Imagination My Own Ideas Get Personal Personal Experiences Experiences Stories
When I was four years old, my father, who was a colonel in the army, was stationed in Salzburg, Austria. Across the street from our house was an ancient castle on a cliff. So when I first heard fairy tales, I felt as if the magic of 'Cinderella' or 'Sleeping Beauty' was taking place right in my own neighborhood. Mary Pope Osborne
Army Old Father First Beauty Own Sleeping Cinderella Our Neighborhood Ancient Magic My Own Colonel Castle Taking Tales House Fairy Fairy Tales Felt Cliff Years Heard Austria Place Across Who Street Right Four
When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school. Mary Pope Osborne
Life Time Me World School Free Community Teenager Local Local Community Our Spending Backstage Visit Williams High Dreary High School Seemed Shakespeare More Tennessee Tennessee Williams Free Time Always Real Continue Than Whether Theater Places Worked Acted Play Imaginary
I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book. Mary Pope Osborne
Book Writing Somewhere Single Before Living Every Imagination Tree Back Books Once Way Magic Could Never Like Looked House Wrote Because Got Discovered Child Children Different Then Keep Started Number
A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing. Mary Pope Osborne
Home Me Writing Vacation
I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies. Mary Pope Osborne
Cowboy Wanted Movies

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