Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense… — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah Copy Share Image
You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
“A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy.… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are… — Dave Pirner Copy Share Image
I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys.… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
“You love the lifestyle you live, and instead of licking your wounds and moving on, you’d rather fix your broken marriage. And… — S. L Jennings Copy Share Image
“Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn't… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any… — Cameron Bright Copy Share Image
That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult… — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“Adults tend to be more understanding and accepting of differences than teenagers. The important thing is to find a group that your… — Chantal Sicile-Kira Copy Share Image
I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I think what makes good children's books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The reason they don't make movies for adults and for people which are the largest bulge of the population is because they… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a… — Charlie Korsmo Copy Share Image
The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So… — Gerald Chertavian Copy Share Image
Every adult has the right to choose who they wish to spend their lives with, and we're all capable of making mistakes,… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“Feed the beast, ladies, and it’ll come to you every time it’s hungry. Make your man feel like he’s the biggest, baddest… — S. L Jennings Copy Share Image
I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I'm looking for box sets that I can put on my… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you're into, but as an adult, I really love that kind of place… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
“My panties were still on but he didn’t let that stop him, nosing them out of the way and tonguing my sex,… — Emme Rollins Copy Share Image
I love the idea of making movies that kids and adults can go to together and both get something out of it,… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
