Joan Aiken Quotes

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.("Hair")

But this is your home''Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!