Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

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.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!

Before I fellin love with words, with setting skies and singing birds—it was you I fellin love with first.

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

A child correct behind and not before.

Love makes one fitt for any work.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

Only thoughts of God and intense love for Him bring peace.