Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind ... This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part.

If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.