Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.