The more he gave away, the more delighted he became.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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.
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
You have to write the book that wants to be written.
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