If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?