Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this, ' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

Tip of the day- Don't smash your face!

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.