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" Theatre is one of those things that children will love if they're helped to get there to see it. No child will find his or her own way to the theatre. "

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" I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd have to decide, each time I stopped, how long I was likely to stop for in order to know whether or not to put the cap on. But I never know. So instead, I use a ballpoint - a Montblanc, to be precise - the most comfortably balanced pen I've ever found. "

" It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls. "

" The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being. "

" One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you. "

" I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds. "

" That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. "

" Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet. "

" The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. "

" I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring. "

" I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! "

" For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. "

" If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care. "

" Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade. "

" My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing. "

" You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts. "

" Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. "

" I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief. "

" I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. "

" I like every individual editor, designer, marketing and publicity person I deal with, but I don't like what publishers, corporately, are doing to the ecology of the book world. It's damaging, and it should change. "

" What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose. "

" The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele. "

" Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it. "

" If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day. "

" Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well. "

" Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit. "

" We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. "

" Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. "

" Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. "

" My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too. "

" For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. "