“Don’t beg for treasure”— Related Quotes “I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader’s defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.”— William Collins “You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the edge of the map ready to blow fire in your face if you strayed off course, to the edge of the known world.”— Anne Roiphe “Once you’ve got a child to the point that they’ve discovered books, they’re safe. There’s a world of the imagination that when they’re hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.”— John Rhys-Davies