Bob Greene Quotes

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

Children haven't changed - the world around them has. Their basic natures haven't changed. They like ice creams. They like to have fun, play games if they get space.

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.

Imagination - that's the future for us.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Once you open the toy box they will play with the toys

When we were kids, our parents would let us play outside all day, and there was a horse-drawn milk wagon that could become anything in my mind, like a spaceship or something.

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.