Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I thought, I'm going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

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

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.