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.

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

One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

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

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.