My work is writing, but my real work is being.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.