I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.

But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

I speak many times about Stephen Ireland, that he is shy like a hedgehog.

When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had been birthed to other syllables.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

Happiness is not being afraid.

I love music, it's always been a big passion for me.