On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?

Books are defensive, not offensive (unless you're the puzzled adult trying to make the kid with the book interact).

I noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be there and waiting for you if you go and look for it. Decide the universe is, say, run by secret enormous teddy bears, and I can guarantee you'll immediately start running across evidence that this is true.

He stared up at the stars, and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.

I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in there.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.