“If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

“When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.”

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.”

“If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.”

“A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.”

“A book comes and says, 'Write me.”