The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
We read to know we're not alone.
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.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.