I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.