Children Quote by Michael Ward

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping…

— Shirley Hazzard

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“Outlaw, Liam, and Reilly’s kids: Arie and Elric Mayhem and Torrin’s twins: Roark and Taryn Deviant and Tage’s kids: Welliver and Lily Romeo and…

— James Cox

“Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen.”

— Gillian Flynn

“These kids, her multitudes, they could grow up. They could move Away. They could—they would—become new, become changed, become actual adult people in progress,…

— Laurie Frankel

“Step-parents, those fairy tale villains, Have been given a bad name. They're easy targets. When the family goes awry How easy to blame them.…

— Eileen Granfors

The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent…

— Brian Selznick

“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad…

— C.S. Lewis

“There is child in all of us that refuses to grow up, a child that is in awe of what can be, the polar…

— Shatrujeet Nath

“Once there was a girl who was drawn to wicked things. Things like forbidden, ancient stories. It didn’t matter that the old stories killed…

— Kristen Ciccarelli

“Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.”

— Richard Beck