Children Quote by L. Sprague de Camp

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

— L. Sprague de Camp

“Christopher Isherwood tried to trick a good topic into rising from his unconscious by irritating it, “deliberately writing nonsense until it intervenes, as it…

— Ralph Keyes

“A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

— Stephen King

“The mother was holding a baby, had a stroller with what looked like twin girls around three, and had a five-year-old boy who was…

— Eileen Cook

“Stupidity is doomed, therefore, to cringe at every syllable of wisdom.”

— Heraclitus

“I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity.”

— Yann Martel

“His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That…

— Ken Follett

“This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.”

— William Saroyan

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“And soon all our minds will be flat as a pancake, With no room for genius exaltation or heartache. And our children and theirs…

— Stevie Smith

“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.”

— Richard Peck

“Frustration of mind can be revel through writing something even if it will be never read.”

— Kartik Mehta