Most Of My Books Have

If Writers Learn More From Their Books Than Do Readers, Perhaps I May Have Begun To Learn.

I Think Imagination Is At The Heart Of Everything We Do. Scientific Discoveries Couldn't Have Happened Without Imagination. Art, Music, And Literature Couldn't Exist Without Imagination. And So Anything That Strengthens Imagination, And Reading Certainly Does That, Can Help Us For The Rest Of Our Lives.

And So They Lived Many Happy Years, And The Promised Tasks Were Accomplished. Yet Long Afterward, When All Had Passed Away Into Distant Memory, There Were Many Who Wondered Whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, And Their Companions Had Indeed Walked The Earth, Or Whether They Had Been No More Than Dreams In A Tale Set Down To Beguile Children. And, In Time, Only The Bards Knew The Truth Of It.

Is There Not Glory Enough In Living The Days Given To Us? You Should Know There Is Adventure In Simply Being Among Those We Love And The Things We Love, And Beauty, Too.

Long Ago I Yearned To Be A Hero Without Knowing, In Truth, What A Hero Was. Now, Perhaps, I Understand It A Little Better. A Grower Of Turnips Or A Shaper Of Clay, A Commot Farmer Or A King--every Man Is A Hero If He Strives More For Others Than For Himself Alone. Once You Told Me That The Seeking Counts More Than The Finding. So, Too, Must The Striving Count More Than The Gain.