Children Quote by Thomas Keneally

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with…

— Dorothy Parker

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

— Annie Dillard

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 tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

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

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of…

— Octavio Paz

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

— Anthony Shadid

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

— Graham Greene

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

I don't like writers. They're dangerous people.

— Greta Garbo

Many writers were picked on as children. Why? Because they were weird from the get-go. They were often to be found at the back…

— Heather O'Neill