I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with…

I loved horses and horse books as a child.

— Meg Rosoff

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was…

— Slavoj Zizek

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to…

— Alberto Manguel

Funny enough, I don't really recall being read kids' books as a child. I think my truly favorite thing to do was flipping through…

— Julio Torres

“If I write a book I do it mostly for myself for the child in me and for the adult in me. The criterion…

— Tomi Ungerer

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

— Tilda Swinton

“He’s a child. But he looks like the kind of child who has seen too much of life, who’s seen more than most adults.…

— Adam Gidwitz

When a child looks up at an adult the adult is texting…ER

— Eddie Rothschild

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

— John Berger

You know it's a sad day when your child looks at you and asks 'Daddy, are these organic?'

— Dylan Moran

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the…

— Annie Dillard

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of…

— Bill Brandt

I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

— Bill Brandt

Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew…

— Elizabeth Gaskell