The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.