Children Quote by Sigmund Freud

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or,…

— Sigmund Freud

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious…

— Carl Jung

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

— Joni Mitchell

“A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.”

— K. Lamb

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading…

— Elizabeth Bowen

The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his…

— Ernest Becker

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander…

— A. S. Byatt

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the…

— Roald Dahl

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

— Rachel Cusk

There is a certain limitlessness to children's novels. You can be as fun and imaginative and creative as you want and your audience is…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it…

— Marie Rutkoski