All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.

You learn to write by doing it.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

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