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Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.