Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.
If you love a waist, you waste a love.
The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.
You can only chase a butterfly for so long.