1. “If you are going o get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
2. “No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.”
3. “Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.”
4. “The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.”
5. “Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.”
6. “Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”
7. “Everyone is born. But not everyone is born the same. One way or another though, every human being is unique, for better or worse.”
8. “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.”
9. “A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and small number of great ones.”
10. “A witch never gets caught. Don’t forget that she has magic in her fingers and devilry in her blood.”
11. “Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.”
12. “The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.”
13. “Two rights don’t equal a left.”
14. “Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.”
15. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
16. “Life is more fun if you play games.”
17. “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”
18. “Most of the reality exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn’t be exciting if they didn’t.”
19. “You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.”
20. “Having power is not nearly important as what you choose to do with it.”
21. “Obscurity is never a virtue.”
22. “The very rich are enormously resentful of bad weather. It is the one discomfort that their money cannot do anything about.”
23. “You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humor.”
24. “There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.”
25. “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
26. “Good writing is essentially rewriting.”
27. “There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven’t met….”
28. “A good plot is like a dream.”
29. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
30. “The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a business.”
