Writing is both mask and unveiling.
The best writing is rewriting.
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are...
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.