Children Quote by V.E. Schwab

“It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling…

— J.M. Coetzee

“ You see, a story is not just a thing told to a child before sleep. A story is control. ”

— Roshani Chokshi

“What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the service of…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just…

— Pamela Paul

“For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.”

— John Green

“He knew the truth. Yes, my dear child, he would undoubtedly tell a terrified toddler tremulously seeking succor, monsters are real. I happen to…

— Rick Yancey

“There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.”

— Richard Bach

“If she were able to be more honest about the housework and her abilities, then maybe he would feel like he could be honest…

— Hillary Adrienne Stern

“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“All the truth is held in stories, you know?”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams…

— Neil Gaiman

“what is fiction in particular is truth in general.”

— Anonymous