Child Quote by Bruno Bettelheim

“A child is a best story teller if it is encouraged to do so. Parents shouldn't get confused between a lie and an excuse.…

— Anurag Bhatt

I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.

— John Shelby Spong

“Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able…

— Lloyd Alexander

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know -- is their true purpose and…

— Suzy Kassem

With all the stories that we have, it's still rare that we get to see what goes on in the minds of our children…

— Rachel House

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

— Byron Katie

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be…

— C. S. Lewis

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

— Katharine Anthony

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The fairy tale is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I think no literature that children…

— C.S. Lewis

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are…

— Oliver Sacks