Child at heart Quote by Edna O'Brien Download Open image “Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.” — Edna O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Child at heart Children Heart Mature Wise Writing
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves. — Andrea Brown Copy Share Image
Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty and solitude… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
“Those who write for children, or at least those who write best for children, are not child-like or immature, but they do remember with… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books. — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“If I could feel like myself I’d thank God but I don’t feel and never will.” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too,… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old that they… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life. — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
For centuries, humans have said to horses, 'You do what I tell you or I'll hurt you.' Humans still say that to each other… — Monty Roberts Copy Share Image
