An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.