Very often do readers set to me the same questions: a true, that I adopted Arcadia, adopted Masha and I live in the settlement of Ложкино in surroundings the great number of animals? Probably, when an author writes books from the first person and gives the names of the family members to the protagonists, people have feeling: a writer tells about itself. From one side, it right - a great deal in my novels is based on the personal experience, with other... I did not get enormous inheritances, as Даша of Васильева, did not escape from home, as Eulampius Romanov, did not grow in family of alcoholic and criminal, as Viola Тараканова, and never was a man, as Ivan Подушкин. But nevertheless my personages - it I, and I - it they. To dissociate Агриппину from Darya, I and wrote an autobiography there is not a word of lie in that. Which what events I simply held back about. In a year, when I will be one hundred years ago, I will produce another book, where will tell all is absolute, and while... Life proceeds, every happens in her, good and bad, unchanging is remained only by my motto: "What would not happen, never not" give up!