George R. R. Martin Quotes

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.

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

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.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.

My earliest memories are being in the lab, and the way the cement felt and the way it smelled, and the way the countertops looked and it just being this wonderful, warm, happy place where it was just full of toys.

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.