"I think there is no one of us who can boast of having telescopic eyes. But when you read, books become your telescopi…"

"when I wrote My Father’s Daughter, some people said it was too good to be true; but it couldn’t be too good to be tru…"

"I still pay tribute to my English teacher, Mrs. Ore Cole, who taught me how to become a writer. It makes you wiser an…"

"Some people who didn’t have better fathers said it was fiction. I said, ‘Well. if you didn’t have the kind of father …"

"When you write children’s literature, you write for different ages."

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"

"Very few of the old s interfere with the duties of their assistants, but there be men who seem to think you have mere…"

"Three days at , and up anchor again; our next place of call being . Every one has heard of the , who tried to beat th…"

"When I was a little boy at school, floundering through Herodotus, and getting double doses of fum-fum daily for my An…"

"Every child knows how fond cats are of hunting and catching mice, but no cat any respectability would think of confin…"