If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.

Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.