He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.
I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.
What I really want to do is to write a hilarious farce.
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.