You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

最好的儿童书籍是那些让孩子思考的书籍。