Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.