He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.