If I can’t remember the words themselves, I can easily remember how I felt as I read them. And that’s always been my goal as a writer: to make readers feel as if they are in the world I’ve created, and that they want to stay there.
At the Guardian, Lauren Wolk, author of Wolf Hollow, writes about how the children’s classic, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, influenced her as a young girl and a writer.