Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.

After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.