Most imitators attempt the inimitable.
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.
The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.
You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.
I am often criticised for being rather accessible.
I always love writing about children.
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
About all you can do in life is be who you are.