Childhood Quote by Katharine Anthony

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there…

— Stephen King

“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

The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it…

— Alice Miller

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

— John Shelby Spong

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that…

— Lillian Hellman

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability comes both…

— Laura van den Berg

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

— Anonymous

The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids.

— Jason Reynolds

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image…

— Howard Pyle

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

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

— Anonymous