I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.