The vividness of children is easier to see when they're…

“We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's…

— Jodi Picoult

“On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to…

— Miranda Neville

God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence.

— Mark Patinkin

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for…

— Michael Morpurgo

I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've…

— Lynne Reid Banks

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

— Julie Taymor

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

— Humphry Davy

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

— Allen Ginsberg

There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who…

— Linda Grant

A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills…

— Peter Galison

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my…

— Rose Tremain

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try…

— James M. Cain

In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that…

— S. I. Hayakawa

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

— George Henry Lewes

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their…

— Italo Svevo