It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.