I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.
Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.
The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.
Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.
Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.
Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.