“It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.”

“To get even one person to read an expressed thought of his is a good start for an author.”

“The less I know, the better I feel about a person or book.”

“I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.”

“In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.”

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

“No two persons ever read the same book.”

“This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.”

“It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.”

“The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.”