This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

Every pound for a woman in the real world is seven pounds for an actress.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Don't talk to strangers. Sure, unless you want to meet anyone ever.

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

Attention with intention gets results worthy of mention.