“I was always determined to find just the right book for that one child who maybe was a reluctant reader. I knew there was a book to turn him on to reading. I just had to find it. I do have a special place in my heart for kids who maybe have trouble reading or who just don't want to for various reasons. It's always my goal to write books that will somehow entice them to want to read.”

“I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.”

“I read all these books and I had the feeling that just reading things is not enough. I also wanted to create my own stuff, to create something new.”

“I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.”

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”

“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.”

“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”

“The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.”

“The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.”