Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.