Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors in the world, a guy called Harry Stephen Keeler, a long dead American mystery writer. He was probably the greatest bad writer America ever produced.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.