Beatrix Potter

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.