Fiction Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible bouts of…

— Stephen King

“Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.”

— Robin Sharma

“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.”

— Karen White

“Like many children I had an intense dream life. Dreams were an amazing theater of the mind featuring both glorious adventures and moments of…

— Robert Waggoner

“Children must find not only their happiest fantasies, but their most violent and terrible nightmares. They must face their demons and laugh at them.…

— Lisa Jensen

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens--miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to…

— John Green

“could remember what it was like to be four, thinking that the adults were in control. When you became an adult yourself, it became…

— Anni Taylor

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“...to live out childhood fantasies as a grown-up was to court and wed and bed disaster.”

— Lev Grossman

“As an adult, it shatters me that the child parts of my mind froze at those ages, didn't develop, and continued to believe the…

— Wendy Hoffman

“It turns out that the things I hated most as a child are the same things that serve me the most as an adult.”

— Kevin Hart