Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within; To find where you are going, First see where you have been.

- Charles Ghigna

When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

- Charles Ghigna

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

- Charles Ghigna

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

- Charles Ghigna

Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

- Charles Ghigna

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

- Charles Ghigna

They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

- Charles Ghigna

A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder.

- Charles Ghigna

The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a vision and wonder …

- Charles Ghigna