Children Quote by John S. Savage

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

When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.

— Philip Pullman

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

— John Shelby Spong

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

— Jerome Bruner

“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

“This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult, a book…

— Laura Miller

“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book. In adult…

— Philip Pullman

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for…

— Maud Lindsay

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.”…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle