Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.