Barry Hannah Quotes

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

People ask what message I have for kids, and it's simple: Just go outside.

'In Ear Park' perfectly encapsulates the beauty of youth for me.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

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

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting, and you can play with it a lot more because it's not you and it's so far from you, so that's very liberating as far as that goes.

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.