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

You learn to write by doing it.

Art is communication.

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.

wherever there's laughter, there is heaven

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Only a fool is not afraid.