Brain Quote by L. Sprague de Camp

“There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just learned that his brain child is a deformed idiot.”

— L. Sprague de Camp

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is…

— Cyril Connolly

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

The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Children don t read to find their identity to free themselves from guilt to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Like toddlers and tyrants, we are quick to take our own stories for the infallible truth, and to dismiss as wrongheaded or wicked anyone…

— Kathryn Schulz

Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of…

— Paula Sharp

Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it happens. So…

— Charles Bock

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go…

— John le Carre

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

— Jean Rhys

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

— John Green

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

— Martin Amis