Christopher Moore Quotes

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

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 have a childlike spirit.

That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I always love writing about children.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

I find most children quite inspiring.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

Children reinvent your world for you.

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