“The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.”

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.

f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

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If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.

What an astonishing thing a book is.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.

People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.