I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.