Aging Quote by Philippa Pearce

“Those who write for children, or at least those who write best for children, are not child-like or immature, but they do remember with…

— J.K. Rowling

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

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

— Edna O'Brien

“One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters…

— George Saunders

“…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And…

— Eliot Schrefer

“the English novel is childish because what is desired is not maturity and wisdom but a return to the safety and innocence of childhood—”

— Lewis Carroll

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

— Margaret Fuller

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

— Diablo Cody

“Books make their greatest mark when they reach readers in their growing years. The young look everywhere for that ground of truth on which…

— Milton Meltzer

When a maturity level and an age don't coincide. Now, there's a life running as* backwards.

— Melchor Lim

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to…

— Viggo Mortensen