If you never enter into the magic, do it now!

You will emerge from your numbness and you will feel this universe of pure feelings which takes you into the imagination. Art through all its expressions, whether we talk about painting, dance, theatre, sculpture, music or romance, cinema, literature, poetry, design is the only one that can inspire our inner spirit. It is an uplifting situation that those that adorn the soul are continuously challenging our wits and fantasy.

When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and although I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.- Katherine Paterson