Children Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an…

— Sandra Cisneros

The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent…

— Brian Selznick

“A story can take children places they've never been before and tell them about things that happened to folks even older than their elders.”

— Wu Ming-Yi

Not everyone can be an orphan.

— Andre Gide

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

— Roberto Calasso

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

— Ed Bradley

Human beings cannot live without stories.

— Ann Douglas

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a…

— Robert Morgan

Orphans are easier to ignore before you know their names; but once you know, everything changes.

— David Platt

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

— Mark Haddon