We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.

The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.