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

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

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.

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.