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Mary Pope Osborne

I wanted to be a cowboy in cowboy movies.

– Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

My imagination is closer to a child’s imagination than to a grown-up’s.

– Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

I would love to live in ‘The Lord of the Rings.’ J. R. R. Tolkien’s world is so vivid and rich and sensual. I love the country setting and the routine of the hobbits. Of course, I would like to be a hobbit who goes on small adventures – not huge, horrifying ones like Frodo’s quest.

– Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

A vacation for me is when I’m home and I’m writing.

– Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can’t be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

– Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

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

Mary Pope Osborne

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad – and from other kids – about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.

– Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.

– Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

– Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

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

Mary Pope Osborne

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

– Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

– Mary Pope Osborne

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