Why did Miss White eventually start to write for children? [br] [originaltext]M

M: Miss White, welcome.
W: Thank you.
M: You said in your speech that when you were young, you loved to read literature for children, but you didn’t find there the reality that you knew, that you experienced as a child.
W: I loved to read, but I longed to find in books children like me with families like my family which wasn’t perfect; it was a loving family, but it wasn’t perfect. I never read anything like that when I was growing up.
M: So you decided, "I’m going to do it myself"?
W: (Laughs)I didn’t decide it at nine or ten. I decided it much later.
M: And then writing became a way to a new life?
W: It certainly did. What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn’t wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
M: You read a very funny letter at the book awards. Someone asked you to send.., what was it, the facts of life?
W: "Please send me the facts of life, in number order."
M: In number order.
W: (Laughs) Yeah, I love that. Yes. I’m still trying to figure that out. What is the number order?